Author_Institution :
Florida Inst. of Technol., Melbourne, FL, USA
Abstract :
The author carries out a comparison of CISC (complex instruction set computing) and RISC (reduced instruction set computing). The author discusses what RISC is and its shortcomings. The evolution of CISC and RISC microprocessors is then discussed and prospects for the future are examined
Keywords :
computer architecture; microprocessor chips; reduced instruction set computing; CISC; RISC; architectures; complex instruction set computing; microprocessors; reduced instruction set computing; Clocks; Computer aided instruction; Computer architecture; Costs; Decoding; Hardware; Pipelines; Reduced instruction set computing; Registers; Very large scale integration;
Journal_Title :
Potentials, IEEE
