What is Von Neumann architecture?

A computer organization that keeps programs and data in the same main memory and fetches and executes instructions in sequence.

Japanese name: ノイマン型アーキテクチャ

Field: CPUs and architecture

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Amdahl's law Branch prediction Cache coherency Cache memory DMA (direct memory access) DVFS (dynamic voltage and frequency scaling) GPU Instruction set architecture (ISA) Interrupt IPC

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