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Hi Stephan,

really great work with this MSP430 implementation! On the repo I found only one simple testbench. Are there more advacned TBs also available?

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards, Andreas

Hey Andreas, sorry for the delay...

Unfortunately, there is no more sophisticated testbench available yet.

I was thinking about a self-checking TB to verify the correct execution of instructions, but I dropped that for now. Are there features you would suggest for a more complex TB?

Are there features you would suggest for a more complex TB?

A very powerful feature would be in circuit emulation through a test access port (TAP). Needs only a little enhancement for exception handling, then you can do all regress testing through the TAP, either in simulation or on real HW using JTAG. I've done the dance a few months ago to check a RISC-V for 'compliance', you'll find some examples in here: https://github.com/hackfin/MaSoCist/tree/opensource/test/virtual_riscv. It's GHDL/Docker powered and runs the 'CI' way on every commit. Likewise, there's a virtual_neo430 test, but it only checks for the UART console output.