what is Computer architecture?

Computer Architecture

 

Computer architecture deals with designing and implementation of instruction set,information format and memory addressing techniques of a computer

Eight Ideas

In the last 60 years of computer design, computer architects have proposed 8 great ideas .They are

1. Design for moore's Law
2. use Abstraction to simplify design
3. make the common case fast
4. performance via parallelism
5. performance via pipelining 
6. performance via prediction
7. Hierarchy of memories
8. dependability via Redundancy