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Concrete Machines (bephpug)
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Igor Wiedler
April 01, 2014
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Concrete Machines (bephpug)
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April 01, 2014
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Transcript
Konkrete Maschinen
@igorwhiletrue
Disclaimer
Computers!!! How do they work?
Quantum Electrodynamics
• A photon goes from one place and time to
another place and time. • An electron goes from one place and time to another place and time. • An electron emits or absorbs a photon at a certain place and time.
None
None
None
Particle-wave duality
Basic Quantum Physics
Atoms
None
Molecules
None
Conductivity
• Metals • Gold • Lose all the electrons
Circuits
None
Logic Gates
AND OR
AND OR NOR
NAND
Transistors
(it’s a switch controlled by current)
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Silicon is a semiconductor
Binary Adder
XNOR NAND
XOR XOR AND OR NOR
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Flip-Flops
None
None
None
Memory
Shitloads of flip-flops
16GB = 64 billion transistors
Clock
Crystal oscillator
Frequency divider
None
Addressing
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Bus
None
Control
Store instructions in memory
Use a clock to drive an increment thing
That indexes into memory to fetch instructions
Decoder on the instructions
Then address either an adder or whatever
It’s a CPU!
Modern CPU has 5 billion transistors
Transistor size 28 nm
~84 atoms across WHEEEEEEE
Data encoding
None
UTF-8
Operating System
Assembly
Go talk to Nicolas about that
Integrated Circuit
None
None
None
That’s how computers work.
Questions?