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Branch Education | How do Transistors Work?

Inside your smartphone, there are billions of transistors, but have you ever wondered how they actually work and how they can be combined to perform tasks like multiplying two numbers together?

One rather interesting thing is that transistors are a lot like Lego Bricks assembled together to build a massive Lego set, which we’ll explore further.

In this video, we dive into the nanoscopic world of transistors. First, we'll see how an individual transistor works, then we’ll see how they are connected together and organized into logic gates such as an inverter or an AND gate.

Finally, we’ll see how logic gates are connected together into large Macrocells capable of performing arithmetic.

00:00 - Inside your Desktop Computer

00:26 - Transistors are like Lego Pieces

01:09 - Lego Bricks vs Transistors and Standard Cells

02:12 - Examining the Inverter Standard Cell

03:24 - How do Basic Transistors work?

09:09 - Schematic for an Inverter Standard Cell

10:45 - Exploring the Macrocell

13:20 - Conceptualizing how a CPU Works

16:55 - The NAND Standard Cell

20:35 - A Surprisingly Hard Script to Write

21:42 - The AND Standard Cell

23:16 - The Exclusive OR Standard Cell

23:54 - CMOS Circuit

24:27 - Understanding Picoseconds

25:51 - Special Thank You and Outro

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