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Chasing resets

A true story.

While it wasn’t hard at all to make the requested changes, I had to come back later and spend more than two weeks chasing down magic numbers buried in the test bench. Specifically, I wanted to add a hardware capability to calculate and store a CRC in an out of band area on a storage device, and then to check those values again when reading the data back. One of the test cases was waiting 100 clock cycles, and then calling a startup task which would then set the “constant” input values that were only sampled during reset.

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