This computer hardware article is a stub.
You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.Architectural state[1] is the collection of information in a computer system that defines the state of a program during execution.
A core dump is a file recording the architectural state of a computer program at some point in time, such as when it has crashed.
Examples of microarchitectural state include pipeline registers, cache tags, and branch predictor state.
Architectural state naturally does not include state-less elements of a computer such as busses and computation units (e.g., the ALU).