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Foil 25 von Neuman Architecture in a Nutshell

From Master Set of Foils for 1997 Session of CPS615 CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Instructions and data are stored in the same memory for which there is a single link (the von Neumann Bottleneck) to the CPU which decodes and executues instructions
The CPU can have multiple functional units
The memory access can be enhanced by use of caches made from faster memory to allow greater bandwidth and lower latency

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