The organization and behavior of computing systems, including their instruction set architecture, CPU execution machinery and computer memory interfaces.
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The term loosely refers to certain layers of the computer abstraction layers hierarchy, usually high level hardware internals like CPU pipeline, caching and the memory system. Basically exactly what gem5 models.