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What is PSW?
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Answer / geo
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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Answer / saravanan
PSW is program status word. it contains various flags like
sign, zero, carry, auxillary carry, and parity . these
flags are affected by result of ALU.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 28 Yes | 8 No |
Answer / mahim nimbawat
PSW stands for Program Status Word, it is 16-bits hardware
register that maintains the status of program being
executed. It shows the current status of ALU operation.
[psw]<- [A]+[flag]
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Answer / santhoshi
The Program Status Word (PSW) contains status bits that
reflect the current CPU state
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Answer / noor
PSW stands for Program Status Word, it is 16-bits hardware
register that maintains the status of program being
executed. It shows the current status of ALU operation.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 8 Yes | 7 No |
Answer / md riyaz alam
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...
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 13 Yes | 13 No |
Answer / hamza khan
Outcome of the last arithmetic operation (zero,-ve, +ve, overflow, carry)
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Answer / nandhini. r
PSW is a 8-bit register. 5 bit indicates status of 5 flags.
3 bits are user definable.
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Answer / dhananjay mishra
In computer ,the program status word is an area of memory or a hardware register which contains information about program stateused by the operating system and the underlying hardware.It will normally include a pointer(address)to the next instruction to be executed.
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