CISC vs RISC (Continued .

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Characteristics of CISC:
1. A large number oI instructions typically 100 to 250
instructions
2. Some instructions that perIorm specialised tasks and are
used inIrequently
3. A large variety oI addressing modes typically 5 to 20
diIIerent modes
4. Variable-length instruction Iormats
5. Instructions that manipulate operands in memory

Questions:
Is the MC68000 a CISC processor? Is the PIC a RISC processor?


Characteristics of RISC:
1. Relatively Iew instructions
2. Relatively Iew addressing modes
3. Memory access limited to load and store instructions
4. All operations are done within the registers oI the CPU
5. Fixed-length and easily-decoded instruction Iormat.
6. Single-cycle instruction-execution
7. Hardwired and micro-programmed control

Further characteristics of RISC:
8. A relatively large number oI registers in the CPU
9. EIIicient instruction pipeline
10. Compiler support Ior eIIicient translation oI high-level
programs into machine language programs