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February 10, 2008
Here is your answer David
A few days ago a fellow named David asked a question in the comments, a pretty basic one:
How does a Microchip work?
The funny thing is for a complicated device the answer is pretty basic. It's all comes down to zeros and ones...
(This is a pretty simple answer you can find more complicated stuff online or in a good encyclopedia.)
A microchip is simply an electrical circuit that performs functions. The idea is that in a microchip the functions are integrated and made smaller the idea begin that a single chip can preform many electrical functions and even specialized functions depending on the type an use, but it its most basic form it is creating a "0" or a "1" state based on flow.
That basic 0 or 1 (bit) is the basis for everything you see in a computer or something that uses a computer from the clock on your microwave to the TiVo and your PC and even the blog that you are now reading. The Youtube video from the visual basic to the C language to the machine language to the Hex Value to the bytes all come down to the single 0 / 1 bit from the electrical flow, and that is how a microchip and frankly our modern society works.
It's really something isn't it?
Posted by Peter at February 10, 2008 01:11 PM