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Overflow flag (OV) bit
1) A status bit that indicates whether or not an arithmetic operation has exceeded the capacity of the corresponding register.
2) Bit 12 of status register ST0; indicates whether the result of an arithmetic operation has exceeded the capacity of the accumulator.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Semiconductors
- Category: Digital Signal Processors (DSP)
- Company: Texas Instruments
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