I was wondering how do you convert from an 8 bit 2’s complement to a 16 bit 2’s complement signed number?
1100 0110 is an example
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I was wondering how do you convert from an 8 bit 2’s complement to a 16 bit 2’s complement signed number?
1100 0110 is an example
It’s called sign extending. You simply repeat the most significant bit until you have the right number of bits. For your example, it would be
1111 1111 1100 0110