>Can someone tell me what's instruction set test?
>
>It is supposed to be the execution of a set of instructions to verify if
the
>result of the instructions match a known value. If it doesn't, it indicates
>the program has corrupted.

Why do you want to do this?  Performing an instruction test on a single chip
micro seems rather pointless to me.  Instruction tests used to be popular
back when a computer was on a bunch of boards and there could be failurs
inside the CPU.  The likelyhood of blowing an individual transistor inside
the CPU of a single chip micro is vanishingly small.  When chips go bad, it
is usually the I/O drivers, power related, or in the case of some PICs the
flash could wear out.


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