incredibly slick presentation considering he gave it in real time
@ahmetyusufsalim5 жыл бұрын
why is that exactly?
@rogerducrin5 жыл бұрын
@@ahmetyusufsalim Because he has little hesitation and smooth, consistent data flow, complete with model demonstration and explanation.
@abseiduk2 жыл бұрын
Old school presentation. Ironic given the subject.
@erikshure3602 жыл бұрын
I would think that he gives this speech a lot.
@cianmullins1254 Жыл бұрын
Nerds are fluent in nerd speak
@puran_singh5 жыл бұрын
Never thought of such an approach to understand ICs. This is amazing! This model needs to be in every school and university :-)
@nagualdesign5 жыл бұрын
^ Exactly what I was going to write. :-)
@MsHojat5 жыл бұрын
It could be done quite effectively in a 3D program as well; namely VR for the easier interactivity of it.
@feha925 жыл бұрын
@@MsHojat Thats actually a good idea, such a simulation could also have visual elements to highlight stuff too, and I don't mean just components being highlighted from context in description, but also stuff like where there is current and how it travels when the user tries sending stuff into the inputs.
@maccliff2115 Жыл бұрын
That acrylic demonstration with the labeled Over is without a doubt the best example of how a transistor works! THANK YOU SO MUCH !!! This video is so helpful you will never know how helpful this was. Great video.
@sbinsdca2 ай бұрын
I think they know and it was the reason it was created
@kanelivingstone20915 жыл бұрын
Exceptional video. Very dense with information yet clear. I can't believe it was only 5 minutes long. Most impressive, well done
@danielplante61815 жыл бұрын
Why couldn't I have these explanations/aids in college? Things would have been SO much easier. Great job man! Now do a 2-input NAND with a different metal overlay :)
@dadygee5 жыл бұрын
Normal youtube comment would be "you dont want aids in college nerd... hehehe..." but I was thinking the same thing... i´ll see myselfe out.
@benjaminramsey46955 жыл бұрын
I love that people like this exist and are willing to prepare materials and lessons like this, SO GREAT!
@BionicRusty Жыл бұрын
Absolutely.
@kieranmcmahon17453 жыл бұрын
This is literally the perfect explanation. When I'm at university, this detail of explanation is nowhere to be seen. In my data logging module, we are taught that "programming language is x, y or z, computers understand binary and microprocessors are simply ""and"" or ""or"" gates". Showing everyone this video is that crucial link between the theory and the practical. Well done, amazing video.
@scottfranco196210 күн бұрын
This is very nice. I did a reverse engineer on a chip and we had the advantage that we had photographs of each layer of the chip. Its done by putting the chip in various acid baths and watching through a microscope to see if the top layer has been removed, then photograph it, then repeat. You end up with a series of transparencies of each layer, then you can lift off layers to see underneath. I think the difference now is this is all digitized and you do that on a screen. Its fun, and you learn a lot about ICs that way.
@wa9kzy3265 жыл бұрын
Dude, this video is so super-duper cool. I have been a electro-techie for over 50 years and wish I could have seen this video in the early 70s. Never too late, eh? Thanks a million !
@I9673 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. Possibly the best demonstration of an IC ever. Seeing it as a big 3D model really helps to understand it spatially.
@billjames19535 жыл бұрын
Very nice job. I do failure analysis on IC's, so I decap them daily. Next time I have to explain what I do, I will reference this video.
@KentSnelson4 жыл бұрын
This is one of the easiest understand presentations I’ve seen on the construction of integrated circuits.
5 жыл бұрын
Changing between images, shapes and diagrams gave a incredible depth in the explanation. Amazing!
@fawal.19975 жыл бұрын
I have been looking for visualization like this for years, RESPECT!!!
@edgeeffect5 жыл бұрын
I love the acrylic model... I'd like to see one of everybody's favourite the 555
@maximosh5 жыл бұрын
The 555 probably has too many components to get a quick and simple grasp of basic chip construction. It's a very useful chip though.
@RonLaws5 жыл бұрын
@@maximosh Actually no, it's surprisingly simple. there's maker kits you can get of it that are jumbo IC (shaped) PCBs with nothing but discrete components. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZLMpH54gcqmqac
@stefano.a3 жыл бұрын
@@RonLaws it is not at the same magnify factor of the acrylic model of not gates. There are too many components
@user-rx2xg4rw2z4 ай бұрын
I mean this is one of the best videos out of all the videoa that i have seen on youtube
@paulgill7222 Жыл бұрын
EFFIN INCREDIBLE , Why don't they teach like this in schools. I'm almost 60 years old and can't thank him enough for making it so easy and concise. Thank you sir
@olmostgudinaf81008 ай бұрын
I grew up behind the Iron Curtain and studied electronics. I'm not sure whether it is due to the place I grew up or whether my teacher was exceptionally good, but this is almost exactly how I learned how chips are made.
@GMC9975 жыл бұрын
I've been always searching for this kind of explanation on how ICs actually look in reality, but I never achieved to find this until now. Thank you! I hope you'll explain more of those basic ICs and then move over to some more complicated ones.
@tb303wpf12 ай бұрын
What an amazing video!!! I think everyone on earth should be required to watch this and learn it. I've been working with electronics for about 15 years. I love it so much for many reasons. The most important of which, is that I always learn something new. No matter how much you think you know, something comes along to show you that you don't know as much as you thought you did. Lol. Superb demonstration sir!
@mytinynotes2k9533 жыл бұрын
For me this is a super complex subject yet he explained it effortlessly with great clarity. Wow!
@fzigunov5 жыл бұрын
The best explanation I've seen about this. OMG. Makes me want to print my own chips now!!
@ZubairKhan-vs8fe5 жыл бұрын
Brilliant brilliant. Please do this for more circuits
@sbinsdca2 ай бұрын
Do enough and we could have a circuit party
@abc_generics6 ай бұрын
Sir, you are a hero... such a clear presentation, I love it!
@anandmr20015 жыл бұрын
Thank you for such a great video, need more of these. There is tons of effort that has gone behind the scene and all of that was presented brilliantly!!
@theprogrammer325 жыл бұрын
This video bridges that gap that nobody bothers teaching because "you dont have to know how its made, just hurry up and slap it together". And it does it on a beginner level without needing to learn how to make PCBs. Mans got a good teaching career ahead of him, if not now then definitely when he retires
@soxnation10004 ай бұрын
This is an amazing video. It shows concretely how transistors physically work to form the logic gates that are used for calculations.
@polloloci215 ай бұрын
This is awesome. I was wondering how these things functioned. It’s incredible how small these are
@tyttuut5 жыл бұрын
Great video! I've never really been able to understand how silicon dice were built, but this gave me a good idea of how it works.
@kjamison59515 жыл бұрын
This is what makes electronics interesting! Not dry curriculum notes delivered in a monotone voice. I worked in a school for many years. Electronics was not the most favorite topic. It was pages and pages of diagrams and symbols and trying to make sense. I was asked to demonstrate a simple chaser circuit. I prepared a 10-page handout with examples and things for the pupils to work with. But what fascinates then more were the physical models and test equipment I used to explain what was happening. They were enthralled.
@s_daivadnya8 ай бұрын
I hope one day real school or college education be made just this simple to understand. Teaching is nonetheless an art.
@batman-telephoneman547910 ай бұрын
Incredibly simplified. Brilliant man at explaining these subject matter. Superb.
@martinsamuelsson23225 жыл бұрын
Great work, I want one of those models
@dadygee5 жыл бұрын
plexi+glue gun + saw +time = profit
@dadygee5 жыл бұрын
*starts knitting in swedish*
@bechelliz3 жыл бұрын
Impressive. Gold medal of YT education for you sir.
@Dem0Dule4 ай бұрын
This 3d plastic model is a next level breakdown.
@SoumilSahu5 жыл бұрын
This is one of the best videos on youtube period I always wondered how we've managed to miniaturise such complex circuitry into tiny ICs. Thanks!
@Omar_Tsai3 жыл бұрын
Massive respect for making all those presentation formats just to explain a simple circuit! 💯
@AS-wi6hr15 күн бұрын
This has immense educational value! 👍👍👍👍👍👍
@hariharan-yi8tf2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for putting this much effort to educate unknowns , I gained something from this ,tanx a lot.
@hammerhead65373 жыл бұрын
Words cannot describe how educational this video is. Thank you. Semper Fi, USMC.
@saotome773 жыл бұрын
You should learn more words. Some are quite useful - But I agree, it's exceptionally educational.
@rdear5 жыл бұрын
This was one of the coolest electronics videos I’ve seen in a while! Amazing presentation.
@henrypaul2248 Жыл бұрын
If it werent for the yt algorithm, I wouldnt have seen this gem. Very concise and crear!
@ahmedamrfarid3 ай бұрын
You are awesome After twenty years, I finally understood how it actually works!!!
@michaelcrosse71003 жыл бұрын
I teach high school electronics, this is the best video ever!
@1kreature5 жыл бұрын
So, have you found the exact same chip but with different metal layer that uses the unused elements yet? The leftover parts can be used by wiring up a different metal layer and you can create the uL900 (buffer) and a dual version as well. Also the uL915 (Dual 3-input NOR) In fact, it looks like a lot of the RTL series from Fairchild could have been realized by the same chip with different metallic layers, keeping a lot of the process the same.
@jackdaniels88982 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I was wondering why there seem to be resistors sitting there not connected to anything. Thank you so much for the explanation. It makes such great sense that you could make, I wouldn’t call it a universal chip, but you could certainly make a chip that could be turned into a couple of different final chips based upon the metal layer.
@sbinsdca2 ай бұрын
What he said 🤯
@tbethauser2 жыл бұрын
This is such an amazing project, literally the most helpful explanation I've ever come across.
@REG33054 ай бұрын
Absolutely GREAT explanation.
@billigerfusel5 жыл бұрын
Appreciate your efforts to help understand topics like this. There is a ton of work behind this short little presentation.
@mnavarrotube Жыл бұрын
Brilliant idea to make knowledge accesible to people. Thank you so much
@CEngrAries5 жыл бұрын
Best Physical Representation! Thanks, Keep up the good work!
@SebleBeyene-jp8hp4 ай бұрын
I feel proud after clicking this video 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@geekionizado3 жыл бұрын
He talks very good. Easy to understand
@BenRyherd5 жыл бұрын
This is really neat! are the "Wire Bonds"/Pins glitter hot glue sticks with one end heated up and mashed down on the acrylic?
@evil-mad-scientist5 жыл бұрын
Yes!
@danielraymadden4 ай бұрын
Good presentation....building large scale models are great teaching aid.... they should operate and compute bits as well....
@anteconfig53915 жыл бұрын
omg. I knew how to make transistors but I never really understood how to utilize their structure. I now have a full understanding of how it's constructed and I can now make any circuit *from scratch.* It's not as complicated as people make it out to be. Sure it can get a little involved but a 10 year old can grasp these basics.
@totallymady42069 Жыл бұрын
This is a remarkable demonstration
@HereWeGo0o0Ай бұрын
This is level 1 and I’m already tapping out. I’ll just tell the kids it’s magic.
@user-ue5yx9xz7p2 ай бұрын
Wow, incredible guys. Thank you so much.
@Playerzach932 жыл бұрын
How did the brain create something like this.
@user-pv8wo3iv7f3 ай бұрын
It wasn’t one brain.
@connorjohnson34293 ай бұрын
Psychedelics
@thisisisabella36342 ай бұрын
@@connorjohnson3429yes. That and education.
@elijahjflowers2 ай бұрын
time and collaboration
@yasirpanezai56902 ай бұрын
Same way that something created the brain
@ecospider52 жыл бұрын
This was frickin amazing. I’m going to watch this over and over until I can do and understand the presentation myself.
@batchrocketproject47202 жыл бұрын
Nice model and explanation. I'd love a follow up that explained the junctions and electron flow. Presumably the clear layer is not a dielectric but is part on an n-p junction; I can only visualise the function by mentally replacing the clear layer with doped material and even then can't quite map it to my rudimentary understandings of diode junctions in transistors.
@colekeircom Жыл бұрын
Excellent and really informative video. Much respect and appreciation from someone who was a young electronics hobbyist when this chip was released. Thank you Windell and to all who were involved. Regards Kieron.
@damotoneko15002 жыл бұрын
I've seen people pick apart things like Ds'es in order to add new components and it honestly makes me confused and intrigued on how chips work. Maybe one day i can truly grasp it but you made a neat explaination.
@courtneypitcher5 жыл бұрын
What was up with the arduino? I am very interested.
@Nikarus23705 жыл бұрын
I am extremely curious as well. All it looks like it was doing was blinking at alternating intervals.
@alexa.davronov15375 жыл бұрын
You will need SEM for that. Plus, you it wouldn't be easy to see actual transistors of the ARM cause it's covered by a lot of circuitry removal of which would be kinda tricky.
@0lleman5 жыл бұрын
It seems that they have etched away the top portion of the microcontroller to show what the insides look like.
@iamthetinkerman5 жыл бұрын
@@0lleman Good spot!
@mofasa25 жыл бұрын
This was so well presented that I could actually pick everything up on the first view!
@wi_zeus67985 жыл бұрын
Why are there unused "components" on the silicon layer? Was this design used for multiple chips with different functions, selected by the metal layer on top?
@michaelbuckers5 жыл бұрын
It's a possibility. But to me it looks like they tried to cram in a third gate but gave up on it and never bothered to manufacture a cleaned up stencil.
@jwo77777775 жыл бұрын
Sometimes features are built into chips simply for testing to make sure the process is in control, a "quality control only" feature. I am uncertain that this is the case with this chip.
@feha925 жыл бұрын
I also want to know what the unused components are for. Are they artifacts from the development process? Are they there for structural integrity? other? I would also have liked a better explanation on what the transistors in the chip was made of. Like the "gap", the word implies its air or vacuum, but the model had something solid there which implies the real one does too, and I am unsure how the base would be held in place away from touching the collector if the gap wasnt solid and the base has air on all sides.
@mike.correa4 жыл бұрын
@@feha92 look up pnp and npn transistors on KZbin. It's basically 2 different types of silicon duping, so the different layers of materials are basically just n silicon and p silicon.
@EdwinSteiner3 жыл бұрын
@@feha92 One possibility is that the same silicon was used to make chips with different functionality. If you have enough transistors, etc., in the silicon, you can implement different functions just by changing the metal layer(s) that wire(s) things up. Making new masks only for one or two metal layers is much cheaper than creating a complete stack of masks for new silicon. (This is even more true today now that many, many layers of masks are needed and the bottom (finer) masks are much more costly to make than the top ones for the metal layers. Today's complicated silicon devices typically contain lots of extra transistors, gates so that if you are lucky, bugs can be fixed by only changing metal wiring.)
@cottsak5 жыл бұрын
This is so good! I really learned heaps just now.
@hvheerden5 жыл бұрын
" In loose hand-waving terms..." That is now my favourite saying
@NoDisguiseYet5 жыл бұрын
This is pretty common saying in my university in europe and it was so funny to hear him say it in english lol
@theunmotivatedprocrastinat89412 жыл бұрын
This literally hurt my brain. Well done. I have to re watch this a few times.
@wffff23 жыл бұрын
I don't think I can thank you enough for explaining this so clearly, but I will try. God bless you, mate.
@SebleBeyene-jp8hp4 ай бұрын
My favorite KZbin video
@cleanitupjanny70332 ай бұрын
Awesome explanation, thank you!
@alexa.davronov15375 жыл бұрын
Incredible work. Thanks for sharing. Great respect to Windell Oskay.
@national-sportswear3 жыл бұрын
Best explanation I've ever seen... cheers and thanks
@aitelhajreda78675 ай бұрын
Impressive video.
@fugamantew5 жыл бұрын
This is SO awesome! Please let's have this be an integral tool of every EE entry logic circuits laboratory course in academia
@renatooliveira0266 Жыл бұрын
Congratulations for your work! The best approach to logic electronics I ever saw!
@dezeeeb Жыл бұрын
That explanation was excellent.👍
@ChrisAthanas5 жыл бұрын
This is so good, after 40 years of messing with electronics, this is now all clear.
@alexionescu40172 жыл бұрын
Amazing presentation of a integrated circuit.
@bcal596211 ай бұрын
Incredible model. Wish I could buy this somewhere
@o.4295 жыл бұрын
Amazing. I wouldn't expect an easier to understand explaination. Thank you.
@Gonzi-ze1sk2 ай бұрын
Brilliant.now i understand a little bit better
@andreasng12 күн бұрын
Nice explanation!
@apoorvamistry5 жыл бұрын
1000 likes for this wonderful demonstration.
@carlosrenatoalvesdeoliveir72223 жыл бұрын
I can understand everthing now, This is impressive explanation about ICs, thanks.
@amiralozse17815 жыл бұрын
cant thank you enough!!! very easy and very well to understand explanation! Thank you again!
@joeldavidfranklin5 жыл бұрын
Awesome explanation!
@jamienewman14882 жыл бұрын
Wow thank you! This has to be the most wonderfully simple explanation of a silicone chip. You Demystified the inner workings thank you. Amazing to think most modern chips have over 1bn transistors. What I would love to know is what goes on inside when something such as an EPROM is reprogrammed.
@phantomflames136 Жыл бұрын
Very nice detailed explanation
@x_ma_ryu_x2 жыл бұрын
Amazing presentation. This definitely helps me for my Masters's courses.
@andrademanoelgmail3 жыл бұрын
Great work, congratulations ! I've never seem such clear and clever presentation lilke yours.
@MiBlogHogar3 жыл бұрын
The best explanation, at last i can figurate it!!
@maxvideodrome42153 жыл бұрын
This guy and his team did a fantastic job. Engineers Laying out these designs - it seems so unstructured, random and messy. Let’s just place these transistors here and there and then we will worry about connecting them.
@chasonbeggerow2977 Жыл бұрын
thank you - very helpful. amazing how complex these things have become...a true engineering a technological feat
@jefferson58843 жыл бұрын
That's exactly what I wanted to understand. Deeply thank you! Awesome job!
@Palundrium5 жыл бұрын
Knew this was the Maker Faire before you said it... Would recognize those chain link fence booths anywhere haha.
@greyskullmcbeef49012 ай бұрын
What a great video!
@bafti1235 жыл бұрын
Good explaination and great models. The story leaves me with two burning questions though. You count six transistors but only four are used in the example schematic. What are the other two for? One of them seems to have the gate disconnected and should therefore not do anything. The other one that is not in the schematic has it's gate and emitter connected and should therefore always be off. And the second question is why they didn't make the die symmetrical if there are two identical circuits on there?
@beanMosheen5 жыл бұрын
It's probably wired a few different ways and sold as different chips for other functions. Sometimes you have enough free die space and it's basically free to spin ither things into a single wafer
@danielplante61815 жыл бұрын
Best guesses: There are spares because the layout can be used for different devices by wiring it differently on the last (or 2nd last) manufacturing step (ie, top metal layer). 1st extra transistor does nothing. 2nd extra is either wired as a diode with the cathode connected to the substrate (protection?), or the ground rail actually does touch the collector - it's hard to tell. Of the 6 unused resistors, 5 are unconnected, but one seems to connect the supply rail to the substrate (bias?).
@Mariajburrowes2 жыл бұрын
Great video and easy to follow :)
@saccadecom5 жыл бұрын
Why are there unused components on the die? Were the same non-metal masks used to make different gates?
@danielplante61815 жыл бұрын
I was wondering the same thing. My guess is yes. A 2-input NAND gate for instance. Just wire it up differently (the top metalization layer).
@RCP-11365 жыл бұрын
@@danielplante6181 thats it. its cheaper to change only the top layer than make a whole new lithography screen for minor changes in the silicon layers. also the complecity and cost of the silicon layer does mostly depend on how many different processing steps you make, not how the structures look like (this is also true for size, if you make stuff smaller it is not more expensive, given your eqiupement can do it to spec).