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WHAT'S YOUR ENGINEERING QUOTIENT?

Problem 1—What value does this function return?

#define MASK 3
int func(void) {
int i = 1;
return (i & MASK + i);
}  

ANSWER

Problem 2—What’s another way of producing the same execution timing as:

NOP
NOP

in a PIC processor, while decreasing the code space necessary by 1?

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