16 - Principles of Digital Computing

Finite-state Machine

Finite-state Machine

Feedback is a fascinating engineering principle. It can turn a rather simple device or process into something substantially more complex.…

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Introduction to Microprocessor Programming

The "vocabulary" of instructions which any particular microprocessor chip possesses is specific to that model of chip. An Intel 80386,…

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A Binary Adder

Suppose we wanted to build a device that could add two binary bits together. Such a device (A Binary Adder)…

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Look-up Tables

Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we know that it is possible to store binary data…

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History of Microprocessors

Early computer science pioneers such as Alan Turing and John Von Neumann postulated that for a computing device to be…

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