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Virtual machine on mSP

Sanchalak
Prodigy 10 points
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: MSP430FG4618

 

Hii,

I am a final year ece student and new to this forum.

I would request the more experienced users to answer one query i have..which is important for my final year project.

Is it possible to build a virtual machine on a MSP430FG4618 microcontroller such that it can simulate say a Microchip microcontroller.

What i mean is...as VMware has many simulation tools available on several microcontrollers that we can run on our PCs...in the same way..can we build a virtual machine which can simulate a different microcontroller ( like a Microchip one)..on a MSP430 microcontroller.

Any suggestions would be heartily welcome.....

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    TI__Expert 4420 points

    hello, i've never heard of anyone developing a PIC simulator to run on an MSP430, but i supposed that it's technically possible.  I've heard of people that have implemented a full LC-3 ISA on the MSP430.  i don't see any reason why extending this concept to another architecture wouldn't be possible.  

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    Guru 227245 points

    Technically, there's no problem (if your target PIC does not require mor ram than your MSP). But given the fact that a 3GHz Pentium (without virtualisation hardware) can only emulate a fast 486/slow Pentium machine (and this with the same base machine code), how fast would you expect the emulated PIC to be, where even the simplest instruction needs to be emulated?

    Well, for simulated debugging it could be useful. But then, why using an MSP and not a PC?

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