Machine code is the instructions that a processor understands and can act upon. Writing in machine code allows programmers to do things that might not be possible in a high-level language. High-level ...

This installment starts a new segment of lessons about state machines. The subject conceptually continues the event-driven theme and is one of my favorites [1,2]. Today, you’ll learn what event-driven ...

The interest in state machines started in the 1950s when George Moore and Edward Mealy published seminal papers on formal methods of designing digital circuits, which generate outputs based on the ...

Instructions are executed as soon as they are translated. Errors can be quickly spotted - once an error is found, the program stops running and the user is notified ...

What is a CPU? It is a thing in the logical center of a computer that does the vast bulk of the number crunching involved in running programs. The ‘C’ stands for ‘central’. Ok. How do you make the ...