Von Neumann Architecture

• By John von Neumann
• first drafted 1945

• Computer consists of 4 parts:

  1. Memory (Programs and Data)
  2. Control unit (interprets the program)
  3. Arithmetic unit
  4. I/O unit

• Aspects

  1. Computer structure independent of problem
  2. Program consists of instructions which are executed sequentially
  3. Has conditional jumps
  4. Binary representation