Hungarian-born John von Neumann (1903-1957), an internationally ... Contrast with Harvard architecture. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

The registers and key elements of the Von Neumann architecture all play a part in how an instruction is processed in the fetch-decode-execute cycle.

Tom Hackett traces the evolution of the von Neumann computer architecture through a series of adaptations intended to bypass processing bottlenecks that appeared as more and more demands were placed ...