From Sand to Silicon: The Making of Intelligent Modern Electronics

Ғылым және технология

Have you ever wondered how electronic devices work and how they become intelligent? From sand to sophisticated technology, this video will take you through the entire process, step by step. You will discover how silicon dioxide or quartz from sand is transformed into semiconductor material and how it's controlled to conduct electricity. You'll also learn how transistors are made, which act as switches or amplifiers. You'll then explore how billions of these transistors are used in modern CPUs, making them switch on and off faster, allowing you to do more things in the same amount of space and power. Finally, you'll be introduced to digital logic and how switches are used to create digital devices that think in 1s and 0s. Watch this video to learn more about the fascinating journey from sand to electronic devices and this is quite the ride, so hang on tight!
0:00 Introduction
0:38 Sand - Silicon Dioxide
0:50 Create the Silicon Wafer
1:53 Create Circuits on the Silicon Wafer
3:25 Analog Circuits with Transistors
4:40 Create Digital Logic with Transistors
5:55 Quick Binary Tutorial
6:35 Full Adder Circuit
9:08 Computer Architecture
10:09 Programming Languages
10:46 Operating Systems
11:23 Hardware Control in Operating Systems
11:58 Game Engine
13:32 Game and Process Overview
14:20 Summary and Intro to CircuitBread
14:56 Sand!
15:15 Outro
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  • @egemenalacal4113
    @egemenalacal41132 жыл бұрын

    It's so sad that I can't like this video again. Great job!

  • @jayeshupadhyay4537
    @jayeshupadhyay45372 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful! This is how educational content should be made. I strongly believe that intuitive understanding is extremely important if you wish to explore a domain deeply, and you guys are pretty good at making content that provides that understanding.

  • @MiracleMachines
    @MiracleMachines Жыл бұрын

    As someone who is just getting into this space -- I am blown away and so pumped up that I have found your channel!! This video blew my mind and answered so many questions I've been having lately.

  • @hoofheartedicemelted296
    @hoofheartedicemelted2965 ай бұрын

    There's no way I could've sat through a video that long and absorbed nearly everything. This is a great channel. Thank you Circuit Bread.

  • @sabbirv
    @sabbirv2 жыл бұрын

    If understanding something that complex was that easy , I could be a good student. 😂 But seriously this video is fun to watch easy to understand , the animated explanations always help. I am watching videos from this channel for a week and I love all of them , it is really helping me understand my EEE engineering courses . Thank you so much . I hope this channel gets the support it deserves .

  • @matu.ayrton
    @matu.ayrton2 жыл бұрын

    Can't believe that I just found out your channel when I started getting interested in electronics, love the educational content, and thanks for doing an amazing job at it!

  • @nmas5565
    @nmas55652 жыл бұрын

    This channel is going to be huge

  • @daboxguy3848
    @daboxguy38482 жыл бұрын

    Quite a simple resource can construct a versatile machine. All these layers of abstraction make us forget how far computers have come - and I thought assembly was hard :I

  • @FrugalRepair
    @FrugalRepair2 жыл бұрын

    Well done and produced video! My degree is in computer engineering and it's great to see the whole process.

  • @CircuitBread

    @CircuitBread

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! I hope we did the computer engineering portion justice!

  • @chethan05168
    @chethan051682 жыл бұрын

    Sir, u make videos the student want that, u understand us very well, love u sir.

  • @sink3122
    @sink3122 Жыл бұрын

    That video idea is AMAZING! I hit the like button after 29 seconds :D

  • @senmonkashonen5875
    @senmonkashonen5875 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot for this explanation, I hope you get more luck with the youtube algorithm, because your videos are true organized documents, keep up the good work!

  • @linkh200
    @linkh2002 жыл бұрын

    Man, I wish I was taller than my fridge. Amazing video as always! Keep up the awesome work!

  • @CircuitBread

    @CircuitBread

    2 жыл бұрын

    😂 Unexpected drawback - I'm the only one in my family who dusts the top of the refrigerator, nobody else can see up there. Thanks for the feedback!

  • @AdityaKumar2128
    @AdityaKumar21282 жыл бұрын

    What a fantastic video

  • @Badabingbang
    @BadabingbangАй бұрын

    You have an awesome channel… your videos are awesome keep up the great work

  • @wholikespancakes_
    @wholikespancakes_2 жыл бұрын

    This is a really cool video! Well done!

  • @nancybateman-kocsis7753
    @nancybateman-kocsis77532 жыл бұрын

    I'm not a technical person but love a good video. Well done!

  • @AzeezatH
    @AzeezatH3 ай бұрын

    As a materials science student, THIS IS SO COOOOL!!!

  • @CircuitBread

    @CircuitBread

    3 ай бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @travisgillespie2819
    @travisgillespie28192 жыл бұрын

    Very cool, thanks for sharing 👍

  • @songoku6425
    @songoku6425 Жыл бұрын

    ladies and gentlemen you have just watched the greatest video in the history of youtube

  • @CircuitBread

    @CircuitBread

    Жыл бұрын

    😂 Thanks for the kind feedback!

  • @HusseinMohamed-ej3ch
    @HusseinMohamed-ej3ch2 жыл бұрын

    Great video, thank you

  • @nadernaysak
    @nadernaysak2 жыл бұрын

    Wow! such an underrated channel!

  • @hoodoooperator.5197
    @hoodoooperator.51972 жыл бұрын

    Amazing video. I'm studying a Masters in Digital Systems Engineering and this is the basics of what I studied in the first term. Would be really interested to see you talk through a CMOS DFF (made from latches) with latched WEN at the CMOS gate level. I had to work through just a DFF made from latches in my last piece of coursework by building it in Cadence, then doing layout at 290nm/220nm followed by a pre-vs-post layout simulation comparison. It was such an amazing challenge, then I decided to try to latch the clock with a write enable to ensure it behaved correctly. I'd like to add a reset low to latch the clock as well, but I can't work out how to latch the clock to two other inputs. I tried all the obvious CMOS logic combinations and some that were a little more... Jazzy? So perhaps you have some insight(s) that may jog my imagination :D Thanks Edit: That quote at the end hits a lot of things on the head for me! I've long thought differing levels of consciousness are brought about through any current flow, I apply that to rivers, the wind, super bands of radiation throughout the universe, etc. It came from a project I did on an FPGA, differential drive, VGA camera robot for my Bachelors. Anyway, the idea of a reconstituted rock of Silicon-dioxide that we've configured to think it's absolutely fantastic.

  • @CircuitBread

    @CircuitBread

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the comment! I only did one semester of CMOS design (digital circuits) and it was really interesting. My hope is to finish off the circuits course I'm currently working on and then jump into digital logic. I'm not sure when we'll get to CMOS design, though, and I'd have to bring in somebody else as none of us here at CircuitBread are CMOS design experts. I don't know if it will help at all, but my professor in this was Dr. Baker who runs cmosedu.com/ - he's an absolutely amazing (and slightly scary) professor that provides a lot of his knowledge free on that website.

  • @hoodoooperator.5197

    @hoodoooperator.5197

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@CircuitBread Thanks!!

  • @purplesky2402
    @purplesky240211 ай бұрын

    Could you make more lectures for the Electronics and SS Devices? And I love this lecture. Thank you this is so helpful ♥️👏

  • @CircuitBread

    @CircuitBread

    11 ай бұрын

    That's actually one of our bigger focuses so far! We have videos on semiconductor technology in general, MOSFETs, BJTs, JFETs, and we're working on IGBTs right now. I think we're actually going to post a second JFET video within the next few days.

  • @chronohax7186
    @chronohax71862 жыл бұрын

    thanks!

  • @bendustin7609
    @bendustin7609 Жыл бұрын

    Bruneau sand dunes? You must be a fellow Idahoan! I loved going there as a Boy Scout!

  • @CircuitBread

    @CircuitBread

    Жыл бұрын

    Indeed! I lived in southern Idaho growing up but I don't remember going to the sand dunes with scouts. However, I went to BSU and when I got out of the Navy, went back to live in Boise and we visited them a few times as a family. We were actually at the dunes when they announced school was canceled indefinitely due to COVID. Weird times....

  • @anamuslimun
    @anamuslimunАй бұрын

    It's an wonnderful video, Thank you so much. I watched it with full attention! I'd love to DIY a transistor. If someone can help me on resources building a transistor in a home lab, please let me know.

  • @uvatham
    @uvatham2 жыл бұрын

    👍

  • @barryhenshaw9321
    @barryhenshaw9321 Жыл бұрын

    What an awesomely informative vid, now please would you go "from sand to AI", thx!

  • @CircuitBread

    @CircuitBread

    Жыл бұрын

    I like that idea! Our developers have been dabbling in AI, I'll have to see if they understand it well enough for us to do something on it because, sadly, I sure don't...

  • @HarrierHawk-iq5ik

    @HarrierHawk-iq5ik

    10 ай бұрын

    @@CircuitBread ive done some expirimentation with ai. been trying to make a basic one run on my laptop. its pretty fun.

  • @motivational_writer53
    @motivational_writer532 жыл бұрын

    I believe the truth table has some mistakes. Ex: A = 1, B= 1, Cin = 0 then S = 0, Cout = 1 check 2nd row and last row.

  • @CircuitBread

    @CircuitBread

    2 жыл бұрын

    You're right! I don't know how that got screwed up in transition from preparation to the actual video and during review. Good eye and thanks for pointing that out!

  • @HarrierHawk-iq5ik
    @HarrierHawk-iq5ik10 ай бұрын

    for a moment i thought you had gone down south to find that sand. fun fact silicone is one of the easiest to find elements.

  • @29.x-asivanandhuatmakuru65
    @29.x-asivanandhuatmakuru6522 күн бұрын

    I would like join as a student under you🤝

  • @Odiskis1
    @Odiskis12 жыл бұрын

    I like how it starts with "from sand to gaming", but a minute after we find out sand isn't pure enough to be used to create silicon. So it never really was sand, but crystals found elsewhere?

  • @CircuitBread

    @CircuitBread

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nope, it is sand, just not the sand that Josh is standing on in that video. That particular sand isn't pure enough, it has to be sourced from somewhere else.

  • @Odiskis1

    @Odiskis1

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@CircuitBread ah okidoki, di you happenn to know how much pure enoughsand is it in the world? I got curious

  • @CircuitBread

    @CircuitBread

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's an interesting question, we didn't research that. But my understanding is that we're not looking at a shortage or anything, I think there's plenty of sand at other places though I wonder, if we somehow did run out of the more pure sand, we'd just have to more aggressively purify the less pure sand that's out there.

  • @ameyd3728
    @ameyd37282 жыл бұрын

    "Its your first date dont make it obvious you are a nerd" Me: 6:25

  • @CircuitBread

    @CircuitBread

    2 жыл бұрын

    😂

  • @HarrierHawk-iq5ik

    @HarrierHawk-iq5ik

    10 ай бұрын

    sometimes i slip and accidentaly write all my answers on a math test in binary.

  • @sergioakaliltroll20s
    @sergioakaliltroll20s5 ай бұрын

    In the meantime and between time 😂

  • @johnditoro1676
    @johnditoro16762 жыл бұрын

    The wafer is NOT silicon dioxide. It is silicon. You get this wrong several times.

  • @CircuitBread

    @CircuitBread

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ah, dang it. Yes, silicon wafers are made from the purified silicon extracted from silicon dioxide. And while silicon dioxide is present in semiconductors as an insulator, if I'm not mistaken, the pure silicon is oxidized to create insulative layers.

  • @johnditoro1676

    @johnditoro1676

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@CircuitBread Most of the time. It can be deposited, but that usually is not as good a dielectric as oxidized silicon.

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