Microchips

Electronic circuits miniaturised on a piece of semiconductor, the basis of computers and digital devices.

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Starter
What Is a Microchip?
Understand microchips, transistors and chip packages through a phone example, and distinguish a semiconductor material from a finished circuit.
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Starter
What Is Inside a Microchip?
Explore the semiconductor base, transistors and chip package, and see how these parts form a component used in electronic devices.
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Basic
How Do Logic Gates Combine to Process Signals?
Follow signals through AND, OR and NOT gates using truth tables and a worked light-control example to understand combined logic.
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Basic
How Do CPU, GPU and Memory Chips Differ?
Compare CPU, GPU and memory by role, processing style and cooperation in an application, rather than treating them as interchangeable speed upgrades.
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How Does a Microchip Process Instructions?
Follow an instruction through fetch, decode, operand reading, execution and writeback; distinguish a CPU model from all chips and from clock cycles.
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