Computer Systems - Von Neumann Architecture Large poster /anchor chart

Following research on posters and their cognitive load effect, I'm at a stage where my room has very few displays. As a rule, any posters that I have up need to be readable from anywhere in the room and big enough for me to physically illustrate the processes, so this will be 136cm x 81cm in size. Made up from 20x A3 sheets. You can change the page settings in the publisher file.

I felt that none of the diagrams in textbooks/slides/online quite cover the GCSE spec and lead to misconceptions.

In an ideal world, I wouldn't include CIR and I would include a multicore processor so I could show how L3 Cache is shared across the cores. The CIR is necessary as I'd like my A-Level students to commit the diagram to memory and L3 Cache/multi core was omitted as it would over-complicate the diagram perhaps.

I've added some icons to page 2. These can be cut out if you want to discuss Virtual Memory, Paging and Swapping. The idea is that you can physically swap the icons between VM and RAM.

Level: (Beginner / Intermediate/ Advanced)

Teaches: (CPU, memory hierarchy, Virtual memory, systems architecture)