Computer Systems and Architecture · Systems & Hardware
The Von Neumann Architecture
Analyzing the Fetch-Decode-Execute cycle and the role of registers, CPU, and memory.
Key Questions
- 1How does the physical design of a CPU limit the speed of computational tasks?
- 2What happens to a computer system if the bottleneck shifts from the CPU to the RAM?
- 3Why do we still use an architecture designed in the 1940s for modern computing?
National Curriculum Attainment Targets
KS3: Computing - Hardware and ProcessingKS3: Computing - Computer Architecture
Year: Year 9
Subject: Computing
Unit: Computer Systems and Architecture
Period: Systems & Hardware
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