computer architecture

1. The art of assembling logical elements into a computing device;
   The specification of the relation between parts of a computer system (synset 106737998)
   is a type of: spec, specification - a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work
   subtypes: neural net, neural network - computer architecture in which processors are connected in a manner suggestive of connections between neurons; can learn by trial and error
2. (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software (synset 104939455)
   "the architecture of a computer's system software"
   referred to in: computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures
   is a type of: structure - the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts
   subtypes:

   • cisc, complex instruction set computer, complex instruction set computing - (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip
   • reduced instruction set computer, reduced instruction set computing, risc - (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform
   same as: architecture

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