Hi all,
Thanks for all your support.
I've been working on building a 'Nibbler' 4-bit CPU project by Steve Chamberlin ( http://www.bigmessowires.com/nibbler/ ), with the help of a board developed by William Buchholz ( https://www.tindie.com/products/wmbuchholz/nibbler-4-bit-homebrew-cpu-pcb/ )
The project provides some bins that include the microcode for the project that is intended to be loaded on a few Microchip flash parts, SST39SF010A ( http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/25022B.pdf ).
I was wondering if anyone could provide some tips or hints to use a 430 launch pad to write the bins out to the flash.
From the data sheet, it seems like it would be possible to write a MSP430 application to implement the requirements to program the chip - with the possible help of some 74HC595 shift registers.
But one thing that is unknown to me is what method to use to read the bin from a PC and pass it over serial to the MSP430 to write it out. I was initially thinking about a python script to the job.
I'm really over my head in all of this, but I'm motivated to try to learn from the experience. If anyone has some experience in doing something similar and get me pointed in the right direction, or knows of some existing libraries that could be leveraged, I'd immensely appreciate your guidance.
Best regards,
Sterny