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Innovating with Transistors

We look how the invention of the transistor changed everything.

Slides

  • 02-SolidState.pptx

Videos

  • Solid State: Starting with Tubes - Part 1 (10:29)
  • Solid State: From Tubes to Transistors - Part 2 (10:24)
  • Solid State: From Transistors to Gates - Part 3 (17:31)

Demonstrations

  • Building a CMOS Nor Gate From Transistors (7:28)

Discussions

  • Transistors and Solid State Computing (Login Required)

Assessments

  • Quiz: Solid State Computing (Login Required)
  • All Gates Truth Tables (Login Required)
  • Building a Not Gate with CMOS Transistors (Login Required)
  • Building a Nor Gate with CMOS Transistors (Login Required)

References

  • AT&T Archives: A Modern Aladdin's Lamp, about vacuum tubes,1940
  • AT&T Archives: Genesis of the Transistor
  • IEEE Spectrum: The Silicon Dioxide Solution
  • The Transistor: a 1953 documentary, anticipating its coming impact on technology
  • AT&T Archives: Microworld
  • YouTube: I Built A Dice Without Writing a Single Line of Code

Bonus

  • IEEE Computing Conversations: Gordon Bell on the Building Blocks of Computing
  • IEEE Computing Conversations: The Living Computer Museum
  • IEEE Computing Conversations: Resurrecting the CDC 6500 Supercomputer video
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