Stored Program Concept

• Stored program concept:

  Serially fetching and executing machine code instructions stored in main memory by a processor that performs arithmetic and logical operations
• Serially: instructions are fetched and executed in order
• Machine code is code that can directly manipulate the CPU without the need for translation
• Arithmetic:

  Operations that involve mathematical operations
• Logical:

  Operations that involve the use of logic gates
• Computers using the stored program concept can have to different architectures: Harvard and von Neumann