Open AccessReduced Instruction Set Computers Then and Now
Author(s) -
David Patterson
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
computer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 169
eISSN - 1558-0814
pISSN - 0018-9162
DOI - 10.1109/mc.2017.4451206
Subject(s) - computing and processing
A widely cited Computer article published in 1982 described the reduced instruction set computer (RISC) as an alternative to the general trend at the time toward increasingly complex instruction sets. A RISC executes most instructions in a single short cycle.
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