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The Manga Guide to Microprocessors Paperback – August 29, 2017

by Michio Shibuya (Author), Takashi Tonagi (Author), Office Sawa (Author)

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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.

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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.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ No Starch Press; 1st edition (August 29, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1593278179
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1593278175
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 14 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.62 x 9.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #247,469 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Ashton

This manga is pretty useful and quite enjoyable to read at any age ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 19, 2018

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This manga is pretty useful and quite enjoyable to read at any age for anyone who is interested in electronics whether you are learning them in school or at home. But if your new to electronics and would like to build one using a breadboard I would highly recommend reading 'The Manga Guide to Electricity' to understand the fundamentals. I forgot this manga is a bit different from other manga, this one is read from left to right, not right to left in Japanese manga. Although I have not fully completely read this manga book since it turns out to be slightly damaged. I tried to fix it by stacking heavy books on top of it for days but it just keeps bending back. Order books on Amazon come with a slight risk as employees don't really care about quality in their product they store to be shipped out. If it is damage why ship it out?

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Joe

Accurate information through fun format

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 15, 2018

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A cool way to learn more about a technical subject without having to push through the imposing "walls of text" common in traditional textbooks. A good way to build a base-level understanding of microprocessors and the underlying concepts of how they function. I'd recommend buying it even if you already have a deep understanding of the topic, just to add a fun, lighthearted resource to your collection.

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Fun to learn

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 17, 2019

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Great book, this book make the subject easy to be comprehended, with some manga story added to it, which gives fun elements

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 12, 2019

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Awesome it has helped her in college

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Dana

Very clear explaination to microprocessors

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 5, 2017

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Amazing. As picture learner, I can learn and understand microprocessors much better. I completely recommend this book and their series to your interest. I own electricity, physics, and this one.

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explains a Neumann machine

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 20, 2018

Until I ran into this book I had no idea that there was an entire series that combined the ever popular manga style of comics with a serious explanation of tech topics. Wow. Alas for the purists amongst you, this book is not that strict a manga. The pages are numbered from front to back European style. Oh well.

The approach is a light hearted way to learn about the hardware under most any computer you'll meet and use. The book never seems to call it a Neumann machine, which is what it is. A general purpose architecture of a basic computer, defined in the Manhattan Project of World War 2 by Johnny von Neumann. The concepts are explained in a simple enough way. No hard math equations. A good approach that certainly works. And the book delves into types of hardware like Field Programmable Gate Arrays. (FPGAs).

To a EE student all this should be familiar. But the book is more aimed at a general reader who is not majoring in EE. Perhaps a science high school or college undergrad.

En passant I see that the authors are Japanese. I wonder if they know this topic's connection to the atomic bomb?

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John Jacobson

Manga is More Than Cartoons

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 13, 2017

This is another in the long line of science and math related Manga Guides. One might think that limiting information to what can be found in a cartoon is the inevitable result of this approach, and one would be right. This book offers a solution to that problem. This book does have a Manga story attached, but the meat of the book is in the “further” descriptions of the CPU components that come after the Manga section in each chapter. CPUs are very complex, and a basic understanding of binary number systems, logic gates, circuit design, memory, addresses, registers, branching, etc., is required before you begin to talk about CPU design and operation. All of these subjects and more are clearly presented.
I was surprised at the quality and breadth of the discussions. The authors provide a short but adequate description of assembly language, and go on to present high-level language, programming basics, and even digital signal processors. This is a quite complete introduction to the world of CPUs, and the many components that make the CPU possible. It should be accessible to interested students of high school age. Recommended!

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Excellent Introduction to 2 Important Topics In E.E. and Computer Science-- Digital Logic and Assembly Language

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 12, 2017

Excellent Introduction to 2 Important Topics In E.E. and Computer Science-- Digital Logic and Assembly Language
Michio Shibuya, the author of other Excellent Manga Guides to Semiconductors and Fourier Transforms has together with his collaborators provided
a sound conceptual basis for two vital courses and areas of study in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science: Digital Logic Design and Assembly/Machine Language. This is an excellent series which provides lighthearted introductions and summaries of many important technical and scientific concepts. An example of the clarity of this particular volume in the series is the great clarity the author provides for twos-complement arithmetic a necessary concept for assembly language programming. The nature of Digital Logic and the construction of a Computer CPU is ably explained. This book could prevent many of the dropouts in understanding of the Computer Science Curriculum and provide an important basis for further study.

--Ira Laefsky Computer & IT Researcher and Consultant formerly on the Senior Staff of Arthur D. Little, Inc. and Digital Equipment Corporation

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 22, 2017

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Good quality, great level of detail, and a good side story.

Inge Marie Juul Baiocchi

Went fine

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The easiest book to pick up about computers.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 1, 2018

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Maybe there are books better for programming in specific, or maybe there are books which really focus on transistors and semiconductive materials.

But if you're looking for a complete overview of how computers work (in regards to the theoretical make-up of CPUs, memory, IO, and much more,) then this is your book.

If you like those cartoons like I do, then you'll love this book. If you don't know where to start to learn about actual computational theory, then you'll love this book. If you're an expert in this field, then you probably won't like this book because it's more of a primer than anything. But get it anyway, because the drawings are cute.

You'll learn about things like:
-Input and Output
-Bit Shifts
-Bits, Bytes, Memory and addressing
-Basic Assembly Bindings
-Theoretical foundational CPU architecture design (Extremely basic level, you can write thousands of pages on x86 alone.)
-A cute love story of two fictional characters brought together by the power of logic and chess.

Buy it for your son or daughter in computer science programs/courses. Buy it for that weird IT guy at work that you question the qualifications of on the daily. Buy it for your dad who rambles about the days of the Z80 CPU (heh, now THAT was a CPU, they don't make 'em like that anymore...). Buy it for yourself if you want to learn about computers yourself.

You'll probably learn more about computers than you would if you actually learned a programming language like Python or Java. That should tell you enough.

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V. Dirr

The Manga Guide to Microprocessors

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on December 28, 2017

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Tolles Buch. Gute Erklärung. Mein Englisch ist wirklich nicht so toll, aber wenn man zumindest ein kleines bisschen Ahnung von der Materie hat, dann ist es problemlos auch mit nicht so guten Englischkenntnissen zu verstehen. Ich hatte anschließend übrigens auf Deutsch das "Informatik für dummies" Buch gelesen. Wenn ich nicht vorher dieses Buch gelesen hätte, dann hätte ich den dem Kapitel über Mikroprozessoren gar nichts verstanden. Inhalt des Buches brauche ich hier wohl nicht zusammenfassen, da man hier auch bei "In Blick ins Buch" sich selbst schnell einen Überblick verschaffen kann. Es ist kein reiner Manga. Es kommen immer wieder auch Seiten ohne Manga vor auf denen die Inhalte gut erklärt werden. Der Manga ist im Grunde nur kurzweilige "Motivation". Ist ist also nicht vergleichbar mit der "Amseln Wüßtegern" Reihe, aber das finde ich gar nicht schlimm, da so wenigsten wesentlich mehr erklärt werden kann. Die Mangas sind (bis auf die Titelseite) komplett in schwarz/weiß.

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Olivier

A very good reading to imagine how processors operate

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on January 18, 2018

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As usual in this series, a rather futile story serves as a support for explaining serious things, but even the futile story is worth reading. Why the missing star? One reason is that what it shows of microprocessors is what was shown to me when studying at university 35 years ago! To be frank I think it is somewhat a good option to keep things easy, but I also think it would have been worth mentioning a few advances, even superficially. The second reason is that quite often, it stops the explanation just before things are becoming very tough, in the style of "you see what I mean" or "finish as an exercice". Again, it is a fairly good option to keep things easy, but again I think it would have been fair to explain the limits of the explanation. Altogether, I recommend this book, either for nostalgic experts or for enthusiastic newcomers.

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