Today, I've added a few more instructions, and tested them in a simple program. The new instruction set looks like this:
0x00 - NOP 0x01 - LD A (immediate) 0x02 - LD B (immediate) 0x03 - LD C (immediate) 0x04 - LD D (immediate) 0x05 - LD E (immediate) 0x06 - JMP (immediate) 0x07 - NOP 0x08 - ADD B 0x08 - NOP ... 0xFE - NOP 0xFF - HALT
In order to test the functionality of each instruction and the hardware, I created a simple looping program to repeatedly increment the A register.
LD A, 0 ;resets the A register LD B, 1 ;Loads 1 into B for incrementing (no inc instruction yet) Loop: ADD B ;adds A and B, then loads the result into A JMP Loop ;Loops to increment A
I did end up coming across a few bugs in the hardware and my instruction decoding, so I'm glad I tested before the CPU became more complicated/difficult to debug.
I'll continue adding more instructions for now, and I'll give another update at some point tomorrow.
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