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CISC vs. RISC - Raspberry Pi Tutorial
From the course: Getting Started with RISC-V
CISC vs. RISC
- [Instructor] Hopefully by now you are well aware of the importance and potential of RISC-V. Now it's time to get technical by digging into the details that make our RISC architecture unique. For that, we need to talk about the distinction between the CISC and RISC computer architectures. The team led by Professor David Patterson at UC Berkeley first coined both terms, CISC meaning complex instruction set computer. Now, this acronym has a negative element to it. With complex, they meant complicated. Here's why. In the 1970's, microprocessors came to existence and a few commercial companies like Intel, Motorola, and Texas Instruments led the market and technological innovation. So microprocessors were designed to meet customer needs, and all programming was done at the low level of assembly code. There was no Java or Python. So if an arcade game manufacturer required a processor capable of performing trigonometric…
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