Microprocessors

Module 1
Introduction to
Microprocessors
1. Orient the students on what a microprocessor is.
2. Orient the students on what a microcontroller is.
3. Identify the different classification of
microprocessors.
Based on the Architecture and hardware of the
processors, they are classified as follows:
• RISC processors
• CISC processors
• VLIW processors
• Superscalar processors
RISC (Reduce Instruction Set Computing) is a processor
architecture that supports limited machine language
instructions.

RISC processors can execute programs faster than CISC

processors.
CISC (Complex instruction set computing) processors
are more expensive than RISC processors.

VLIW (Very long instruction word) processors have

instructions composed of many machine operations.
These instruction can be executed in parallel aka
instruction level parallelism.
Superscalar processors use complex hardware to
achieve parallelism.

It is possible to have overlapping of instruction

execution to increase the speed of execution.
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