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by Stenzel 859 days ago
Processors with saturating capabilities usually clip at 0x7FFFFFF and 0x80000000, so the clipping thing has no relation to the original topic. But in fixpoint DSP, 0x8000 (add trailing zeros if you like) is often the only possibility to achieve a multiplicative identity by using a = - b * 0x8000, with the negation part of the assembly instruction.