Part 6 of 6 in the series: From Vacuum Tubes to Integrated Circuits (IC)Microchips are made for program logic (microprocessor chips) and for computer memory (RAM chips). [...]
Part 5 of 6 in the series: From Vacuum Tubes to Integrated Circuits (IC)Basic logic gates explained and all the different ways they can be drawn and represented. [...]
Part 4 of 6 in the series: From Vacuum Tubes to Integrated Circuits (IC)A bipolar junction transistor consists of three regions of doped semiconductors. [...]
Part 3 of 6 in the series: From Vacuum Tubes to Integrated Circuits (IC)When p-type (+)and n-type (-) materials are placed in contact with each other, the junction behaves very differently than either type of material alone. [...]
Part 2 of 6 in the series: From Vacuum Tubes to Integrated Circuits (IC)4 Videos – total ~15min
Key words:
Vacuum Tubes, Magentic Drums(for memory), Colossus , UNIVAC and ENIAC, Transistor, Disk Drive, Punch Cards, Microprocessor
1st Generation (1940-1956) Vacuum Tubes
2nd Generation (1956-1963) Transistors
3rd Generation (1964-1971) Integrated Circuits (IC)
4th Generation (1971-Present) Microprocessors
In Progress – 5th Generation (Present and Beyond) Artificial Intelligence (AI) [...]
Part 1 of 6 in the series: From Vacuum Tubes to Integrated Circuits (IC)A programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. [...]