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'[PIC] detecting overflow without using 24bits'
2004\09\22@144112 by T C

2004\09\22@174153 by Andrew Warren

T C <spam_OUTpiclistTakeThisOuTmit.edu> wrote:

> I thought I saw an app note/article/design idea/or somethin'
> that discussed how to detect if a resulting value
> outside -32768 -> 32767
> would occur with:
>
> i16_op1 - i16_op2
> or
> i16_op1 - u16_op2 (u16 might be 0-32767 only)
>
> Trying to avoid using 24 bits.
>
> Anyone see the doc? ... any ideas?

TC:

Overflow only occurs when you add two numbers of the same sign, so if
you're adding a positive number to a negative number, overflow cannot
occur.

When overflow occurs, the sign of the result is different from the
sign of the two inputs: if both inputs are negative and the result is
positive, or if both inputs are positive and the result is negative,
an overflow has occurred.

-Andy

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=== Principal Design Engineer
=== Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
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