VON NEUMANN ARCHITECTURE




John von Neumann

John von Neumann

John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American pure and applied mathematician, physicist, inventor, computer scientist, and polymath. He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics, physics, economics, computing, and statistics
 



VON NUEMANN MACHINE

Von Neumann architecture scheme.

  • Architecture described by John von Neumann.
  • Also known as Von Nuemann model.
  • Uses a single processor.
  • Data and instruction are stored in a single read-write memory.
  • The contents of this memory are addressable by location.
  • Execution occurs in a sequential fashion from one instruction to the next.
  • Computer consisted of a CPU, Memory and I/O device.



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