Computer Architecture

HISTORY

The first documented computer architecture was in the correspondence between Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace, describing the analytical engine. Two other early and important examples were:

v  John von Neumann's 1945 paper, First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, which described an organization of logical elements; and

v  Alan Turing's more detailed Proposed Electronic Calculator for the Automatic Computing Engine, also 1945 and which cited von Neumann's paper. 

computer architecture 

Computer architecture is a main part of computer technology.

 In computer engineering computer architecture is a set of disciplines that describes the functionality, the organization and the implementation of computer systems; that is, it defines the capabilities of a computer and its programming model in an abstract way, and how the internal organization of the system is designed and implemented to meet the specified capabilities. Computer architecture involves many aspects, including instruction set architecture design, micro architecture design, logic design, and implementation. Some fashionable computer architectures include cluster computing and non-uniform memory access.