Types of processors Flashcards
1
Q
RISC
A
Reduced instruction set computing
2
Q
CISC
A
Complex instruction set computing
3
Q
Features of RISC
A
Has simpler hardware
more complicated software code
takes one cycle per instruction
can use RAM to handle intermediate results
4
Q
Features of CISC
A
Has more complex hardware
More compact software
takes more cycles per instruction
Can use less RAM as non need to store intermediate results
5
Q
Co-processors
A
Modern high performance CPUsincorporated aspects of both (vn and h)
one main memory for both data and instructions
but CPU cache divided
