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Q15 FIR clips negative overflow without counting it · case 05

A negative full-scale burst reports zero saturations.

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Case contract

Input [coeffs, samples] as Q15 integers. Each output accumulates the full-precision products c_k x[n-k] (zero history) in a wide accumulator, then rounds once (add 2**14, arithmetic shift 15) and saturates to int16. Return {"y": outputs, "saturations": number of clipped outputs}.

Why this case matters

DSP MAC units keep guard bits and round once; per-product rounding or missing overflow accounting degrades fixed-point FIRs.

One recorded failure

Sample boundary fixture

This sample comes from the broken implementation of a controlled reproducer.

Boundary fixture	Actual	Expected	Outcome
regression: negative overflow	`{"saturations": 0, "y": [-32767, -32768]}`	`{"saturations": 1, "y": [-32767, -32768]}`	Failed

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