Hardware and Software Design Question:

Explain Difference between RISC and CISC?

Hardware and Software Design Interview Question
Hardware and Software Design Interview Question

Answer:

RISC-Means Reduced Instruction Set Computer.a Risc
system has reduced number of instructions and more
importantly it is load store architecture were pipelining can be implemented easily.Eg.ATMEL AVR.

CISC-Means Complex instruction set architecure.A CISC
system has complex instructions such as direct addition between data in two memory locations.Eg.8085.


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