Michio Shibuya, Takashi Tonagi, Office Sawa

The Manga Guide to Microprocessors

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ayumi is a world-class shogi (Japanese chess) player who can t be beaten that is, until she loses to a powerful computer called the Shooting Star. Ayumi vows to find out everything she can about her new nemesis. Lucky for her, Yuu Kano, the genius programmer behind the Shooting Star, is willing to teach her all about the inner workings of the microprocessor the brain inside all computers, phones, and gadgets.

Follow along with Ayumi in The Manga Guide to Microprocessors and you ll learn about:

-How the CPU processes information and makes decision
-How computers perform arithmetic operations and store information
-logic gates and how they re used in integrated circuits
-the Key components of modern computers, including registers, GPUs, and RAM
-Assembly language and how it differs from high-level programming languages

Whether you re a computer science student or just want to understand the power of microprocessors, you ll find what you need to know in The Manga Guide to Microprocessors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: No Starch Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Altersempfehlung: 10 bis 14 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 177mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781593278175
• ISBN-10: 1593278179
• Artikelnr.: 46888191

Autorenporträt

A 1971 graduate of Tokai University’s electrical engineering department, former nuclear magnetic resonance researcher Michio Shibuya has been a MOS product designer and developer for over 12 years. Shibuya has since pursued a career in IC design and is the author of The Manga Guide to Fourier Transforms, The Manga Guide to Semiconductors, and other books. Office Sawa was established in 2006, specializing in advertisement and practical educational guides. They pride themselves in their sales promotion materials, reference books, illustrations, and manga-themed manuals.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue

Chapter 1: What Does the CPU Do?
Chapter 2: Digital Operations
Chapter 3: CPU Architecture
Chapter 4: Operations
Chapter 5: Programs
Chapter 6: Microcontrollers

Epilogue

Rezensionen

Recommended for public school and college library collections for its educational content and its reader-friendly format!
Midwest Book Review

Thorough, packs in piles of details about computers. I strongly recommend this book.
ScienceBlogs

Provides an impressive amount of information on such a vast topic.
School Library Connection

Fun, well drawn, and simplified...Every library and college bookstore needs to have this entire series!
Sequential Tart

Beginners, computer science students, and aficionados will find the manga style engaging and the textual sections deep with details about the inner workings of computer processors.
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