How does binary translate to hardware?

Question

I understand how the code is compiled to assembly, and that assembly is a 1:1 replacement with binary codes. Can somebody help me understand how binary is conne

Answer 1

In a very simplified way the computer can be represented as an infinite loop (implemented in hardware) and abilities to do simple arithmetic operations (also implemented in hardware). In the loop it does the following:

• read the memory at PC (PC is the loop counter which gets incremented)
• decode the command and operands
• execute the command
• write the results back to memory

And that's it. Also there are control commands which can change the PC and which are used for "if ... then ... else" statement.