How a transistor works

Name: How a transistor works
Uploaded: 2015-03-20T05:21:26Z
Duration: 11 min 23 s
Channel: Ben Eater
Description: Ben Eater gives a detailed look at how an NPN bipolar junction transistor works and what it does. It is an eleven-minute explanation aimed at building real understanding of the device.

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Ben Eater gives a detailed look at how an NPN bipolar junction transistor works and what it does. It is an eleven-minute explanation aimed at building real understanding of the device.

HN commenters prefer it over other transistor explanations as an enlightening starting point that leads into building logic gates and a CPU.

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@1000100_10001012023 · in “From Nand to Tetris (2017)”

Aside from his basic 8-bit CPU, Ben Eater goes into how transistors work too: ▶ this video . Once you've got transistors, his videos walk you through making gates. Once you've got gates, he switches to the 74xx series and builds a CPU.

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@npilk2022 · in “How do transistors work, anyway?”

As someone who is not an electrical engineer, I found Ben Eater's videos on how semiconductors work and how transistors work interesting and enlightening. How semiconductors work: link How a transistor works: ▶ this video

How a transistor works

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