Acronym · Design & Architecture
RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer)
A processor design philosophy favouring a small set of simple fixed-length instructions, a load-store memory model and many registers, so that instructions pipeline easily at high clock rates.
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- Design & Architecture, Processor architecture
Notes
Emerged from Berkeley and Stanford research in the early 1980s; almost every modern high-performance core is RISC-like internally regardless of its visible ISA.
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