Hungarian-born John von Neumann (1903-1957), an internationally ... Contrast with Harvard architecture. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

The registers and key elements of the Von Neumann architecture all play a part in how an instruction is processed in the fetch-decode-execute cycle.

In this paper, von Neumann suggested the stored-program model of computing. In the von Neumann architecture, a program is a sequence of instructions stored sequentially in the computer's memory. The ...