What is PSW?

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What is PSW?..

Answer / vikrant devendra musale

program status word.... a reg in the
microcontroller/microprocessor s showing the current current
status of alu operation

eg: if a carry is generated after an alu operation ,the
corresponding carry flag bit in this reg will set 1.

like if the result is a zero, then the zero flag is set...

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