ESE 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Von Neumann Architecture, Instruction Register, Computer Architecture
25 May 2020
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Register view of architecture and operation of a. Register transfer level view of a general purpose digital computer architecture. Architure: the physical organization, construction, or designs of a computer system and its components. One way to visualize or analyze a computer system"s architecture is in terms of its registers using a register transfer level (rtl) abstraction. Data processed by a gpdc is represented by groups or strings of bits. Instructions that specify the processing of data by a gpdc are also represented by groups or strings of bits. The interpretation of the information represented by a group of bits depends on in which register the bits exist and the encoding used. Some encodings are determined by the computer"s designers (architects) - for example the encoding of instructions. Data encodings are usually determined by the person who writes an application program - for example numeric data may be encoded as an unsigned binary, two"s complement, packed bcd, or floating point.
