Hey! Believe it or not, I'm still here, and still working on this project. Just not a whole lot of spare time these days :-)
This weekend I purchased something that I swore in my first post that I wouldn't -- a microcontroller. I got myself a TI Launchpad development board. It was only $4.30 with free shipping. How could I pass that up?!
But don't fret -- I'm not planning to use it to take the easy route on any parts of the CPU. I will, however, be using it to simulate certain components (primarily the register file) while I work on the other CPU components. I'm finding that it's quite difficult to properly test the various units when I don't actually have registers with which to put data on the bus...
Once the Launchpad comes in I'll get familiarized with the interface, write a few "hello world" programs for the MSP430 and then get crackin' on the register file simulator...
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I picked up a few of those things a while back. Still haven't come up with anything to actually do with them besides making the LEDs blink a few times. I'll be interested to see what you do with it.
ReplyDeletewelcome back! glad to hear that the project is still rolling on. looking forward to your next update.
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