I know what a transistor is, but i don't get how do we get from transistors to calculation power(computers)

Question

thanks for explaining it to me

Answer 1

A transistor can be used like an electrically controlled switch. By connecting them together, you can make it so the state of the transistors becomes self-supporting, which is the basis of one bit of memory. You can also connect transistors together to make primitive logic gates (AND, OR, NOT, and so on) and, by connecting millions of those together, you can make a computer.

Answer 2

too much to explain in this forum. Go to wikipedia and start with transistor,  logic, computer and go on from there.

Answer 3

basically a single transistor is an on off switch

on is 1 and off is 0 (usually)

and computers communitcate in binary, 1 and 0's

Starting with the basic building blocks of one's and zero's, you add some boolean algebra. AND NOT OR XOR etc. These can be considered as gates. for example AND will let a 1 go through only if all of its inputs are 1's.

Once you have basic boolean algebra down, you can move up to digital logic. Where you can build state machines, and state tables to make simple detection circuits.

The next step up in complexity would probally be assembly language. It's a programming language that is limited, but you focus a lot on the individual 1's and 0's. Also you find out about commands. A command is a string on 1's and 0's that when sent to a computer, or microcontroller, will excecute a certain action that has been preprogramed. This is called the fetch decode execute. But even basic assembly language programing is a big jump from ANDing two bytes together.

But from assembly you take a bigger jump to the programs we use today. In these programs you don't even see the trillions of 1's and 0's and the years of history and the months of hard work people have put into making your program work.

If you want to understand more, search about boolean algebra and digital logic, it's the first step to a computer

Answer 4

h**l, ive been asking myself that same thing so have a star. i hope you get a good answer (because then ill have one to)