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2 free lessons tagged vlsi across Science. Each one is a short sequence of focused steps with narration and a five-question quiz at the end — take them in any order, no signup required.
Scaling and the end of Moore's law
Why Dennard scaling died in 2005, how the industry kept Moore's law alive through FinFET, gate-all-around, and chiplet packaging, and why modern chips look like zoos of specialized accelerators sitting half-dark. The constraints that produced the modern SoC and the frontiers that come next.
CMOS logic: from transistors to chips
How pairing NMOS with PMOS creates digital gates that draw zero steady current. The CMOS inverter, NAND/NOR construction, the static-vs-dynamic power split that DVFS exploits, propagation delay and fan-out, and the scaling path from one inverter to a 25-billion-transistor SoC.