What is PSW?

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What is PSW?..

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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What is PSW?..

Answer / pratik

5 bits indicate the 5 status flags and 3 bits are
undefined. The combination of these 8 bits is called
Program status Word(PSW). PSW and the accumulator are
treated as a 16 bit stack pointer

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What is PSW?..

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.

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What is PSW?..

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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What is PSW?..

Answer / santhoshi

The Program Status Word (PSW) contains status bits that
reflect the current CPU state

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What is PSW?..

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.

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What is PSW?..

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...

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What is PSW?..

Answer / hamza khan

Outcome of the last arithmetic operation (zero,-ve, +ve, overflow, carry)

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What is PSW?..

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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What is PSW?..

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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