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Computer architecture
 | This article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points. (November 2023) |
In computer science and computer engineering, computer architecture is a description of the structure of a computer system made from component parts.[1] It can sometimes be a high-level description that ignores details of the implementation.[2] At a more detailed level, the description may include the instruction set architecture design, microarchitecture design, logic design, and implementation.[3]
- ^ Dragoni, Nicole (n.d.). "Introduction to peer to peer computing" (PDF). DTU Compute – Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. Lyngby, Denmark.
- ^ Clements, Alan. Principles of Computer Hardware (Fourth ed.). p. 1.
Architecture describes the internal organization of a computer in an abstract way; that is, it defines the capabilities of the computer and its programming model. You can have two computers that have been constructed in different ways with different technologies but with the same architecture.
- ^ Hennessy, John; Patterson, David. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (Fifth ed.). p. 11.
This task has many aspects, including instruction set design, functional organization, logic design, and implementation.
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