Computer Hardware Terms, Glossary and Dictionary

Architecture

Architecture, in computer hardware, is a framework or structure that provides the form of a hardware system and the conventions, policies, and mechanisms for composing itself with subsystems, or component parts, that can populate the architecture. The architecture defines how the parts relate to each other including constraints governing how they can relate. If a system is divided into parts and components, then there are interfaces that define how the parts intercommunicate or interface.

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