Andrei Chichak and Alvaro Prieto (@alvaroprieto) join us to talk about bits and how to manipulate them.

Alvaro is host of the Unnamed Reverse Engineeringpodcast. His other Embedded appearances are 130, 200, and 215.

Andrei (“Andrei from the Great White North”) works at CBF Systems. His other Embedded appearances are 99, 114, 139, and 200.

Andrei wrote about bit manipulation as part of Embedded Wednesdayson Embedded.fm: Logic in C, part II. Andrei recommends using ISO646.hto reduce confusion around bit manipulation. Also, his suggested calculator is the SwissMicros DM16L

Elecia wrote an introduction to binary and hex.

For more information about programming and binary, see How to Count by Steven Frank

For advanced bit twiddling, check out:

• Bit Twiddling Hackswebsite
• Hacker's Delightbook by Henry S. Warren Jr (1st Edis also available)