Convert Decimal to Binary Vector

Question

I need to convert a Decimal Number to a Binary Vector

For example, Something like this:

  length=de2bi(length_field,16);

Unfortunat

Answer 1

You mention not being able to use the function de2bi, which is likely because it is a function in the Communications System Toolbox and you don't have a license for it. Luckily, there are two other functions that you can use that are part of the core MATLAB toolbox: BITGET and DEC2BIN. I generally lean towards using BITGET since DEC2BIN can be significantly slower when converting many values at once. Here's how you would use BITGET:

>> Data = 12;                  %# A decimal number
>> Bin_Vec = bitget(Data,1:6)  %# Get the values for bits 1 through 6

Bin_Vec =

     0     0     1     1     0     0