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Geek Author presents educational series covering computer organization, computer architecture, and embedded system design. Each episode is a concise step taking the listener on a journey from the foundations of digital logic up to computer architecture and finally to system level input and output. The series is presented by engineer, author, and educator David Tarnoff. After a career in industry designing motherboards and BIOSes, David began teaching hardware concepts to students of computer science. Twenty-five years later, he's taking that content and providing it to anyone with an interest in what makes a computer tick.

  1. الحلقة ١

    An Intro to the Computer Organization Series

    This episode provides a brief introduction to the Geek Author series, Computer Organization and Design Fundamentals, and to it's host, David Tarnoff.

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  2. الحلقة ٢

    The Importance of Hardware Design

    In this episode, we discuss the importance of hardware design to anyone interested in creating computing solutions.

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  3. الحلقة ٣

    Real World Analog versus the Digital Computer

    In this episode, we make the distinction between analog (real-world) values and the values that a computer uses, in other words, digital. We discuss the benefits of digital over analog and describe a simple system to capture analog values.

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  4. الحلقة ٤

    The Anatomy of a Binary Signal

    In this episode, we define the components of a single binary signal as its value changes over time. This will provide us with a starting point for the terminology we will be using throughout the rest of the series.

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  5. الحلقة ٥

    Pulse Width Modulation

    In this episode, we show how a binary signal can be used to give the appearance of an analog output. We then use this understanding to show how to dim an LED on the Arduino open source platform.

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  6. الحلقة ٦

    How Computers Count without Fingers

    In this episode, we visit some ancient Sumerians so we can expand our view of finger counting and see how this applies to counting with transistors. From this, we will have the basis for unsigned binary integers and the humble binary digit or bit. We also show how to calculate the upper limit to which a fixed number of transistors can count.

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  7. الحلقة ٧

    Unsigned Binary Conversion Tricks

    This episode continues the work of the previous one by examining the methods used to convert between decimal and binary and vice versa. We also take a look at the effects of shifting the bits of a binary number both left and right and how those operations can be used to simulate multiplication and division. Oh, and since we will be discussing a lot of numbers, it couldn't hurt to have a piece of paper and a pencil close by.

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  8. الحلقة ٨

    Hexadecimal - Sixteen Ways to Nibble at Binary

    Binary can be challenging. The values tend to have a lot of digits, long sequences of ones or zeros can be difficult to distinguish, and the relative magnitudes of multiple binary values can be difficult to resolve. In this episode, we discuss a couple of the popular methods to quickly represent binary in a more human readable form.

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Geek Author presents educational series covering computer organization, computer architecture, and embedded system design. Each episode is a concise step taking the listener on a journey from the foundations of digital logic up to computer architecture and finally to system level input and output. The series is presented by engineer, author, and educator David Tarnoff. After a career in industry designing motherboards and BIOSes, David began teaching hardware concepts to students of computer science. Twenty-five years later, he's taking that content and providing it to anyone with an interest in what makes a computer tick.

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  • صناع العمل
    Intermation
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  • التقييم
    ملائم
  • حقوق النشر
    ©2019 David Tarnoff acting as Intermation Extended Media
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