Testing hte CPU

Hi all,
I am trying to figure how can I test the CPU on the board to make sure that
it is alive. I am thinking turning some leds on the board but I do not know
how to do the software for that and where the software should reside.

The memory controller is still not available besides that I do nto have a
flash programmer at home to burn the flash each time I want ot make a test, I
can program it at work or university only.

I do not know if we can dump a binary file to the SRAM directly then allow
the CPU to use it. I may write a small VHDL code to get the binary data from
the PC parallel port then write it to the SRAM do you think it will work? Did
anyone check the OpenRisc debug port? can we use it for this reason?

Please let me know your comments so as to make some progress with the project
we have not done anything for long time.

Best regards,
Jamil

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