A bitwise operator is a character that represents an action taken on data at the bit level, as opposed to bytes or larger units of data. More simply put, it is an operator that enables the ...

This Design Idea presents a method for fast integer multiplying and multiplying by fractions. What can you do when you lack access to a hardware multiplier or MAC (multiply/accumulate) function and ...

Step right over those bit-shift operators, they don’t bite. Now look at this beauty right here: I call her The Ultimate Debouncer (tm)!” Everybody who works with microcontrollers eventually runs into ...

I'm dealing with some performance critical code-- a function which is called > 10^10 times in a typical execution. I've noticed that author used a lot of bit shifting instructions (foo >> 5) * (bar >> ...