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<@U016EM8L91B> If you feed the serial loader a continuous stream of zeros or ones and trigger the load signal multiple times, shouldn't they all eventually end up being 1 or 0 no matter any setup / hold violations?

Yes, but that will give you only a minimal amount of information.  It will at least tell you that the count comes to and end and that the load worked.

The count definitely comes to an end because this loops a coupe of times then finishes (a0 is the IO config base) :
```        // Trigger load
        li s0, 1
        sw s0, 0(a0)
1:
        lw s0, 0(a0)
        bne s0, zero, 1b```

Note that it only loops a few time because with the flash fetch, it takes a lot of cycles to fetch even a single riscv instruction, so there are a lot of cycle. It's hard to know exactly how many cycles because it's not clear where it start / end exactly but in the order of ~ 1000 cycles probably.