Reduced Instruction Set Computer (Noun)
Meaning
(computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform.
Classification
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
Examples
- The RISC philosophy emphasizes a smaller set of instructions that can be combined to perform complex tasks efficiently in a reduced instruction set computer.
- Reduced instruction set computers typically use a load/store architecture in which data must be loaded into registers before it can be manipulated.
- One of the primary advantages of a reduced instruction set computer is its high speed, which is achieved by having a simplified instruction set and pipelining.
- The design of a reduced instruction set computer seeks to minimize the number of clock cycles required to execute instructions.
- By having fewer instructions to process, memory access and execution speeds in a reduced instruction set computer are increased.