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.

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 ...

I have a C union of a struct containing bit-fields and an unsigned word which contains various flags and multi-bit variables within it (status register). I use the bit-fields as a quick way to access ...