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Geek Author

57 episodes

Geek Author presents educational series covering computer organization, computer architecture, and embedded system design. Each episode is a concise step taking the listener on a journey from the foundations of digital logic up to computer architecture and finally to system level input and output. The series is presented by engineer, author, and educator David Tarnoff. After a career in industry designing motherboards and BIOSes, David began teaching hardware concepts to students of computer science. Twenty-five years later, he’s taking that content and providing it to anyone with an interest in what makes a computer tick.

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Episode 8.01 - Intro to Error Detection

Published: July 12, 2020, 9:02 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes

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Episode 7.06 - Stupid Binary Tricks

Published: June 3, 2020, 2:20 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 26 seconds

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Episode 7.05 - Flipping Bits using the Bitwise Inverse and Bitwise-XOR

Published: May 26, 2020, 5:09 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 38 seconds

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Episode 7.04 - Setting Bits using the Bitwise-OR

Published: April 19, 2020, 5:36 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 39 seconds

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Episode 7.03 - Coding Bitwise Operations

Published: April 12, 2020, 1:36 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 26 seconds

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Episode 7.02 - Clearing Bits using the Bitwise-AND

Published: March 21, 2020, 5:13 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 54 seconds

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Episode 7.01 - The Need for Bitwise Operations

Published: March 11, 2020, 4:18 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 42 seconds

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Episode 6.10 - Demultiplexers

Published: March 5, 2020, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 45 seconds

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Episode 6.09 - Multiplexers

Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 3:41 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 1 second

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Episode 6.08 - Binary Decoders

Published: Feb. 21, 2020, 6:26 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 42 seconds

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Episode 6.07 - Seven-Segment Display Driver Design

Published: Feb. 18, 2020, 11:08 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 30 seconds

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Episode 6.06 - Don’t Cares as Inputs

Published: Feb. 10, 2020, 9:09 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 6.05 - Don't Cares, the Logical Kind

Published: Feb. 8, 2020, 2:54 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 13 seconds

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Episode 6.04 - Four-Variable Karnaugh Map Example

Published: Jan. 31, 2020, 4:54 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 58 seconds

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Episode 6.03 - Makin' Rectangles

Published: Jan. 28, 2020, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 47 seconds

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Episode 6.02 - Two- and Four-Variable Karnaugh Maps

Published: Jan. 22, 2020, 5:08 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 15 seconds

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Episode 6.01 - Introduction to Karnaugh Maps

Published: Jan. 13, 2020, 6:42 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 54 seconds

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Episode 5.03 - The Product-of-Sums Expression

Published: Jan. 8, 2020, 6:38 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode 5.02 - NAND Logic

Published: Dec. 30, 2019, 5:35 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 43 seconds

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Episode 5.01 - The Sum-of-Product Expression

Published: Dec. 24, 2019, 8:49 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 38 seconds

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Episode 4.10 - More Boolean Simplifications

Published: Dec. 14, 2019, 1:31 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 44 seconds

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Episode 4.09 - Simplification of Boolean Expressions

Published: Dec. 6, 2019, 5:12 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 13 seconds

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Episode 4.08 - DeMorgan's Theorem

Published: Dec. 1, 2019, 8:31 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 13 seconds

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Episode 4.07 - Identities of Boolean Algebra

Published: Nov. 24, 2019, 9:22 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes

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Episode 4.06 - Properties of Boolean Algebra

Published: Nov. 22, 2019, 9:04 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 4.05 - Introduction to Boolean Algebra

Published: Nov. 15, 2019, 6:21 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 24 seconds

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Episode 4.04 - NAND, NOR, and Exclusive-NOR Logic

Published: Nov. 8, 2019, 4:50 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 12 seconds

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Episode 4.03 - Combinational Logic

Published: Oct. 27, 2019, 6:49 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 56 seconds

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Episode 4.02 - Truth Tables

Published: Oct. 26, 2019, 5:28 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 26 seconds

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Episode 4.01 - Intro to Logic Gates

Published: Oct. 20, 2019, 7:42 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 22 seconds

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Episode 3.12 - Run Length Limited Coding

Published: Oct. 18, 2019, 5:04 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 20 seconds

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Episode 3.11 - Polar and Bipolar Line Coding

Published: Sept. 13, 2019, 10:55 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 40 seconds

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Episode 3.10 - Signaling and Unipolar Line Coding Schemes

Published: Sept. 13, 2019, 10:06 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 35 seconds

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Episode 3.09 - UTF-8 Encoding and Unicode Code Points

Published: Aug. 31, 2019, 5:29 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 6 seconds

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Episode 3.08 - Intro to ASCII Character Encoding

Published: Aug. 10, 2019, 7:52 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 16 seconds

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Episode 3.07 - Introduction to Floating Point Binary and IEEE 754 Notation

Published: July 28, 2019, 11:12 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 13 seconds

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Episode 3.06 - Fixed Point Binary Representation

Published: July 21, 2019, 1:21 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 57 seconds

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Episode 3.5 - Introduction to Offset or Biased Notation

Published: July 17, 2019, 4:10 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 52 seconds

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Episode 3.04 - The Application of Twos Complement

Published: July 10, 2019, 10:16 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 4 seconds

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Episode 3.03 - An Introduction to Twos Complement Representation

Published: June 23, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds

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Episode 3.02 - Tens Complement Arithmetic

Published: June 15, 2019, 11:13 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 15 seconds

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Episode 3.01 - Adding and Subtracting Ones and Zeros

Published: May 31, 2019, 11:23 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 44 seconds

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Episode 2.10 - Gray Code Conversion and Applications

Published: May 26, 2019, 5:58 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 14 seconds

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Episode 2.9 - Introduction to Gray Code

Published: May 15, 2019, 11:44 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 2.8 - Quantization Noise in Analog Sampling

Published: May 11, 2019, 4:22 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 42 seconds

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Episode 2.7 - The Effect of Sampling Rates on Digital Signals

Published: May 10, 2019, 5:37 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 2.6 - Analog to Digital Conversion with Arduino

Published: April 13, 2019, 5:04 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 2.5 - Binary Representation of Analog Values

Published: April 6, 2019, 2:58 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 43 seconds

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Episode 2.4 - Packed Binary Coded Decimal (BCD)

Published: March 31, 2019, 7:24 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 45 seconds

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Episode 2.3 - Hexadecimal

Published: March 7, 2019, 12:34 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode 2.2 - Unsigned Binary Conversion

Published: Feb. 23, 2019, 12:45 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 49 seconds

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Episode 2.1 - How Computers Count without Fingers

Published: Feb. 16, 2019, 11:25 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 55 seconds

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Episode 1.4 - Pulse Width Modulation

Published: Feb. 9, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 51 seconds

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Episode 1.3 - Anatomy of a Binary Signal

Published: Feb. 2, 2019, 7:52 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 8 seconds

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Episode 1.2 – Analog vs. Digital

Published: Jan. 25, 2019, 5:12 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 21 seconds

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Episode 1.1 - The Importance of Hardware Design

Published: Jan. 25, 2019, 4:03 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 32 seconds

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Episode 0.0 - Prologue

Published: Jan. 25, 2019, 3:33 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 32 seconds

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