Tuesday, September 3, 2013

FLYNN’S TAXONOMY OF COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

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The most popular taxonomy of computer architecture was defined by Flynn in 1966. Flynn’s classification scheme is based on the notion of a stream of information. Two types of information flow into a processor: instructions and data. The instruction stream is defined as the sequence of instructions performed by the processing unit. The data stream is defined as the data traffic exchanged between the

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