vonneumannarchitecture
nounA way of building computers where the brain and the memory are kept in one place so they can talk to each other easily.
The von Neumann architecture lets a computer store both its instructions and its data in the same memory.
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2. A computer design in which a single memory holds both program instructions and data, sharing one pathway between them.
Most modern general-purpose computers still follow the von Neumann architecture at their core.
3. The theoretical blueprint described by John von Neumann in 1945 for an electronic digital computer.
The report outlined the von Neumann architecture that shaped nearly every computer built afterward.
4. A system organization where processing and storage are separated but connected by a shared channel, causing the von Neumann bottleneck.
Engineers study the von Neumann architecture to understand why fetching data and instructions can slow each other down.