Von Neumann Architecture
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Set it as homework or classwork and every answer is marked as pupils go, with feedback on what they got wrong. The scores go straight into your mark book, so you can see who needs help before the next lesson.
- 10 questions
- 30 marks
- about 25 minutes
- marked instantly
Question types: short answer, multi-part, fill the gap, true or false, multiple choice.
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Which of the following correctly describes what happens during the fetch stage of the FDE cycle?
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About this resource
Explore the Von Neumann stored-program model, how instructions and data share the same memory, and trace how registers collaborate during program execution.
16 slides.
Lesson outline
- Before Stored Programs
- Quick Prediction
- The Stored-Program Concept
- Stored-Program Concept Check
- Von Neumann Architecture - The Building Blocks
- Von Neumann Architecture Diagram
- Architecture Features
- The Three Buses
- How the Registers Work Together
- Let's Trace a Program
- Interactive Trace: 20 − 8
- Trace Challenge