Meaning | (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's ... / computer's hardware or system software. |
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Synonym | architecture |
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Category | computer science, computing | The branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures |
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Narrower | complex instruction set computing, complex instruction set computer, CISC | (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip |
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reduced instruction set computing, reduced instruction set computer, RISC | (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform |
Broader | structure | The manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts |
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Spanish | arquitectura de ordenadores |
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Catalan | arquitectura d'ordinadors |
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