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Computer Architecture →
Computer architecture is built on the capabilities and limits of hardware—CPU cores, memory hierarchy, interconnects, and I/O—defining organization and performance models that the physical components make possible.
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Instruction Set Architecture →
Hardware’s registers, execution units, word size, memory hierarchy, and I/O pathways make the ISA’s opcodes, addressing modes, and concurrency semantics physically executable, bounding what the ISA can define.