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    electronics and computer science, a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) is a computer architecture designed to simplify the individual instructions given to...
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  • A complex instruction set computer (CISC /ˈsɪsk/) is a computer architecture in which single instructions can execute several low-level operations (such...
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  • A one-instruction set computer (OISC), sometimes referred to as an ultimate reduced instruction set computer (URISC), is an abstract machine that uses...
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  • Minimal instruction set computer (MISC) is a central processing unit (CPU) architecture, usually in the form of a microprocessor, with a very small number...
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    Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus at UC Berkeley. Patterson is noted for his pioneering contributions to reduced instruction set computer (RISC) design...
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  • In computer science, an instruction set architecture (ISA) is an abstract model that generally defines how software controls the CPU in a computer or...
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  • Content-addressable memory Reduced instruction set computer Complex instruction set computer One-instruction set computer TrueNorth Lambinet, Philippe...
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    John L. Hennessy (category American computer scientists)
    their work in developing the reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture, which is now used in 99% of new computer chips. Hennessy was raised in...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. RISC is an abbreviation for reduced instruction set computer. RISC or Risc may also refer to: Berkeley RISC Classic RISC...
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  • In computer engineering, an orthogonal instruction set is an instruction set architecture where all instruction types can use all addressing modes. It...
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  • an executable program, often stored as a computer file and executed on the processor. The x86 instruction set has been extended several times, introducing...
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  • originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) for computer processors. Arm Holdings develops the ISAs and licenses...
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  • Classic RISC pipeline (category Instruction processing)
    In the history of computer hardware, some early reduced instruction set computer central processing units (RISC CPUs) used a very similar architectural...
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    BASIC programming language. She first began designing the ARM reduced instruction set computer (RISC) in 1983, which entered production two years later. It...
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  • optimizing compilers and reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architectures and RISC-like complex instruction set computer (CISC) architectures, and...
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    computer Hybrid computer Harvard architecture Von Neumann architecture Complex instruction set computer Reduced instruction set computer Supercomputer Mainframe...
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  • Iron law of processor performance (category Computer architecture statements)
    needed] of Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC) whose instruction set architectures (ISAs) leverage a smaller set of core instructions to improve performance...
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    instruction set computer), RISC (reduced instruction set computer), vector operations, and hybrid modes. CISC involves using a larger expression set to...
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  • An instruction set architecture (ISA) is an abstract model of a computer, also referred to as computer architecture. A realization of an ISA is called...
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  • IBM POWER is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by IBM. The name is an acronym for Performance Optimization...
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  • researchers at HP recognized that reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architectures were reaching a limit at one instruction per cycle.[clarification needed]...
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  • Berkeley RISC (category Instruction processing)
    Berkeley RISC is one of two seminal research projects into reduced instruction set computer (RISC) based microprocessor design taking place under the Defense...
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  • series of computer microprocessors, developed by Jiangnan Computing Lab (江南计算技术研究所) in Wuxi, China. It uses a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture...
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  • processing units (CPUs) on established reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles. It includes an instruction set architecture (ISA) using an open-source...
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    microprocessors Alpha (original name Alpha AXP) is a 64-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Digital Equipment...
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  • Protocol RIR—Regional Internet registry RISC—Reduced Instruction Set Computer RISC OS—Reduced Instruction Set Computer Operating System RJE—Remote Job Entry...
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    In computer programming, machine code is computer code consisting of machine language instructions, which are used to control a computer's central processing...
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    The ROMP is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) microprocessor designed by IBM in the late 1970s. It is also known as the Research OPD Miniprocessor...
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    Graphics processing unit Comparison of instruction set architectures Protection ring Reduced instruction set computer Stream processing True Performance Index...
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  • was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for his development and implementation of reduced instruction set computer architecture and program...
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