diff --git a/icache_tb.vhdl b/icache_tb.vhdl
index 7aeb69c..a82912e 100644
--- a/icache_tb.vhdl
+++ b/icache_tb.vhdl
@@ -77,7 +77,11 @@ begin
         wait for 30*clk_period;
 
         assert i_in.valid = '1';
-        assert i_in.insn = x"00000001";
+        assert i_in.insn = x"00000001"
+	    report "insn @" & to_hstring(i_out.nia) &
+	    "=" & to_hstring(i_in.insn) &
+	    " expected 00000001"
+	    severity failure;
 
         i_out.req <= '0';
 
@@ -88,7 +92,11 @@ begin
         i_out.nia <= x"0000000000000008";
         wait for clk_period;
         assert i_in.valid = '1';
-        assert i_in.insn = x"00000002";
+        assert i_in.insn = x"00000002"
+	    report "insn @" & to_hstring(i_out.nia) &
+	    "=" & to_hstring(i_in.insn) &
+	    " expected 00000002"
+	    severity failure;
         wait for clk_period;
 
         -- another miss
@@ -98,7 +106,11 @@ begin
         wait for 30*clk_period;
 
         assert i_in.valid = '1';
-        assert i_in.insn = x"00000010";
+        assert i_in.insn = x"00000010"
+	    report "insn @" & to_hstring(i_out.nia) &
+	    "=" & to_hstring(i_in.insn) &
+	    " expected 00000010"
+	    severity failure;
 
         -- test something that aliases
         i_out.req <= '1';
@@ -110,7 +122,11 @@ begin
         wait for 30*clk_period;
 
         assert i_in.valid = '1';
-        assert i_in.insn = x"00000040";
+        assert i_in.insn = x"00000040"
+	    report "insn @" & to_hstring(i_out.nia) &
+	    "=" & to_hstring(i_in.insn) &
+	    " expected 00000040"
+	    severity failure;
 
         i_out.req <= '0';
 
diff --git a/icache_test.bin b/icache_test.bin
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c458a23
Binary files /dev/null and b/icache_test.bin differ
diff --git a/scripts/gen_icache_tb.py b/scripts/gen_icache_tb.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..93b1a1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/gen_icache_tb.py
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+b = bytearray()
+for i in range(0x100):
+    b = b + i.to_bytes(4, 'little')
+f = open('icache_test.bin', 'w+b')
+f.write(b)
+f.close()
+