Книга: Advanced PIC Microcontroller Projects in C

1.4.1 RISC and CISC

1.4.1 RISC and CISC

RISC (reduced instruction set computer) and CISC (complex instruction computer) refer to the instruction set of a microcontroller. In an 8-bit RISC microcontroller, data is 8 bits wide but the instruction words are more than 8 bits wide (usually 12, 14, or 16 bits) and the instructions occupy one word in the program memory. Thus the instructions are fetched and executed in one cycle, which improves performance.

In a CISC microcontroller, both data and instructions are 8 bits wide. CISC microcontrollers usually have over two hundred instructions. Data and code are on the same bus and cannot be fetched simultaneously.

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