117. AQA A Level SLR17 Von Neumann and Harvard architecture


About this video

AQA Specification Reference
AS Level 3.7.1.1-3.7.2.1
A Level 4.7.1.1-4.7.2.1

In this video we take a more detailed look at various processor architectures, including: Von Neumann and Harvard.

Key question:

- Are there other ways to build a processor?

00:00 Von Neumann and Harvard architecture
00:13 Intro
00:18 Von Neumann architecture
00:48 The stored program concept
01:32 Harvard architecture
01:57 Contemporary architectures
02:39 SIMD
03:01 MIMD
03:18 Distributed computing
03:36 Key question
03:45 Outro

Last updated: 04.09.25