How do Transistors Build into a CPU? 🖥️🤔 How do Transistors Work? 🖥️🤔

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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.

Table of Contents:

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

15:11 - Brilliant Sponsorship

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

We're working on more ambitious subjects like How Computers Work.

A special thank you goes to Matt Venn for helping to provide the accurate standard cell layouts. He runs the Zero to ASIC Course YouTube channel as well as TinyTapeout where you can build your own integrated circuit. Another special thank you goes to Maximo Balestrini who built the GDS to Blender Rendering.

Lead Animator: Parvesh Khatri

Animation Director: Mike Radjabov

Research, Script and Editing: Teddy Tablante

Twitter: @teddytablante

Modeling: Prakash Kakadiya

Image Editing: Randy Catequista

Animation Contribution: Andrew Alalibo, Aaron Pozzer

Voice Over: Phil Lee

Sound Design by Drilu: www.drilu.studio

Sound Design and Mix: Luis Huesca

Erratum:

Wikipedia contributors. "Application-specific integrated circuit", "Integrated Circuit", "Logic Gate", "Standard Cell". Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Visited June 20th 2025

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