On the Brink of Disconnection

Berkeley Scientific: the journal of young scientists

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Candy Xu

关键词: Computing Speed;    Computer Architecture;    Moore's Law;    Language Decoding;    Domain-Specific Languages;    Quantum Computing;   

DOI  :  10.5070/BS3232045346

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: University of California, Berkeley

【 摘 要 】

On April 19, 1965, Gordon Moore presented an article that revolutionized the entire computer industry. He pointed out thatdue to the falling cost of circuit components, we would be able to squeezemore and more of them onto silicon chips over the next several decades.1One effect of this increase in components is an increase in speed, a corecharacteristic that determines the functionality of a computer. Computingspeed is highly related to the arrangement of components and communication between signals and code. These design mechanisms all belong tothe field of computer architecture. Vital elements of computer architecture include the central processing unit (CPU), random access memory(RAM), read-only memory (ROM), Input and Output (I/O), and systembus.2 Together, these components construct a path for software and hardware to communicate with each other. If a computer is like a human body,then computer architecture would be the ways in which the brain and therest of the body, namely the mental and physical components, interact.While existing architecture has already matured greatly since its genesis,the next decade will likely bring about efforts to revise the current architectural design further so as to continue increasing computing speed.

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