What is machine code and how do we make the leap from transistors to machine code?
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Machine instructions have 3-ish parts: an operation, a register, and a value/address. The operation is like add, load, store, test, or jump. Each operation pattern of bits causes same register in the computer to change; add changes a data register; jump changes the register that stores the address of the next instruction; …
Transistors in a flip-flop configuration make up each bit of each register. Transistors in and/or logic formulas make the decoder structures that decode the operation. Transistors also make the buffers and controls for busses that connect to memory and I/O.
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