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Making logic gates from transistors

Ben Eater shows how to build logic gates out of transistors, including NOR gates. It is part of his clear hardware-from-scratch teaching style.

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HN people recommend Ben Eater's videos for easy, clear explanations of digital logic and building computers.

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This video was reasonably good, but still required a lot of background. If you want really terrific easily understood, yet totally in-depth information about integrated circuits, starting from the physics how semi-conductors actually work at the electron level, all the way up through gates and …
compiler-guy on Hacker News · 2019-05
In Integrated Circuits Can Be Easy to Understand with the Right Teachers
Ben Eater’s series on building an 8-bit computer from scratch was very helpful to me in this regard: [LINK] [VIDEO]
z3ugma on Hacker News · 2021-07
In Ask HN: Recommend Some Logic Gate Tutorials and Examples?

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