Computer architecture is the field concerned with the conceptual design and operational structure of computer systems: how processors, memory and input and output are organized so programs execute efficiently. Its documented history runs from the correspondence between Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace describing the analytical engine to John von Neumann's 1945 First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, the paper whose stored program organization nearly every later machine follows. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Core ConcernHow the parts of a computer are organized and made to work together so that programs run correctly and fast. 1 Computer Architecture
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Approximate computing techniques are implemented as approximate hardware circuits, a computer-architecture concern.
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His 1945 First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC described the organization of logical elements that later machines follow.
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John von Neumann's 1945 First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC described the stored-program architecture, with a single memory holding both instructions and data, that gives the von Neumann architecture its name and underlies most computer designs since.
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Reconfigurable computing is defined in its own lead as a computer architecture.
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a computer architecture is the conceptual design and operational structure of a computer system that define how component parts are organized and interact to execute programs efficiently.
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The first documented computer architecture was in the correspondence between Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace, describing the analytical engine.
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John von Neumann's 1945 paper, First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, which described an organization of logical elements
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Approximate Computing (Wikipedia)
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approximate adders, approximate multipliers and other logical circuits can reduce hardware overhead.
Reconfigurable Computing (Wikipedia)
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Reconfigurable computing is a computer architecture combining some of the flexibility of software with the high performance of hardware by processing with flexible hardware platforms like field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
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