I understand how a processor works and RAM and all that stuff. I understand you can use assembly and other languages to make the processor do things. But I assume that you have a to do something to the processor so it can understand your inputs? And if you have to put a base layer on the processor, how does the machine that did it get it’s layer?
It’s like watching one of those videos where they make this big dump truck. But they needed to build a mold to make the dump truck part. But how did they build a mold to make that mold that made that mold?
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On a pure hardware level you just connect wires from transistors to transistors.
Now, that’s hard and complicated to do something containing billions of wires.
So people made languages that allow you to define blocks and connections between them. Then machines understand those langauges and make lay actual wires.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verilog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHDL
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