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To: milo_morai who wrote (64127)	11/20/2001 6:24:46 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Milo, "For the lurkers here's a good page on CPU Field Effect Transistors (FET)" Is anyone else here who shares this opinion?

To: milo_morai who wrote (64127)	11/21/2001 12:37:37 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

For the lurkers here's a good page on CPU Field Effect Transistors I understand that voltage is applied to the gate which then allows current to flow from the source to the drain. This is an electrically switch not a physical switch which would presumably be too big and too slow. But how does the current get applied to the gate? If it uses its own similar electrical switch then the question just gets backed up one level. If it uses a physical switch then would not that switch be too big and too slow? Everything that I have read about transistors and microprocessors either just assumes such knowledge, or if basic enough not to assume it, it either deals with the individual transistor's operation, like that Intel link, or it deals with the overall design of the microprocessor (how many ALUs or FPUs, the cache structure, prefetching, how the CPU deals with branches, ect.) , or the techniques used to create the MPU. Any good links that deal with how transistors work together to perform basic MPU functions, that doesn't require an engineering degree to understand? Tim