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Foil 23 von Neuman Architecture in a Nutshell

From New CPS615Master Foils-- 26 August 96 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science CPS615 -- Fall Semester 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 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
2 The CPU can have multiple functional units
3 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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