Bit Fields are a useful element of C and C++ which are seemingly poorly documented. Presented here is an attempt to gather up the most pertinent information and provide a better understanding of bit ...

Working with embedded systems usually involves writing code which will interface with hardware. This often means working on the register level. It doesn’t matter if we’re talking about a UART, an ...

So you’re getting better at programming microcontrollers and now you want to do several things at once? You know better than that, microcontrollers are only capable of processing one thing at a time.

During a discussion on GameDev recently, I suggested someone use a bit field as a method to avoid having to deal with various masking and shift operations in a manual and potentially buggy manner. The ...