Difference between revisions of "IBook How Computers Work"

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** Logic gate simulator
 
** Logic gate simulator
 
* Assembly Language
 
* Assembly Language
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** Simulator
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** Performance
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** Bottleneck
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* Von Neumann Architecture
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** The architecture
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** Computer Architecture: how to bypass the bottleneck
 
* Example of a High Level Language: Processing
 
* Example of a High Level Language: Processing
 
* From Moore's Law to the Singularity.
 
* From Moore's Law to the Singularity.

Revision as of 15:00, 23 January 2013

--D. Thiebaut 16:05, 18 January 2013 (EST)


Table of Contents

  • Preface
    • Why
    • Target
  • Introduction
    • Steam Boy
    • Mechanical calculators
      • Addition, subtraction, multiplication, divisions...
  • Several factors: electrical energy, switches, ON/OFF, binary, number systems, math, boolean logic, Shannon ==> Computer
    • Electricity
      • properties: easy storage, easy distribution, easy generation, fast, easy control
      • ON/OFF
    • Binary system versus decimal system.
    • Boolean Logic, George Boole.
    • Logic with electricity and switches
    • Shannon: Combining Logic and arithmetic
    • From the transistor to logic gates
  • Logic Design
    • Logic gate simulator
  • Assembly Language
    • Simulator
    • Performance
    • Bottleneck
  • Von Neumann Architecture
    • The architecture
    • Computer Architecture: how to bypass the bottleneck
  • Example of a High Level Language: Processing
  • From Moore's Law to the Singularity.