Reduced Instruction Set Computing (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
- Reduced Instruction Set Computing is a design strategy based on the observation that in programs the simpler instructions are used more often.
- The SPARC and PowerPC processor families have made extensive use of Reduced Instruction Set Computing technology.
- Reduced Instruction Set Computing is a central design strategy in many modern microprocessors.
- The advantages of Reduced Instruction Set Computing are based on the idea of simplifying the instruction set that a processor has to support.
- The underlying idea behind Reduced Instruction Set Computing is that the simpler a processor is, the more instructions it can process in a given amount of time.