User Tools

Site Tools


instruction

One of the basic set of commands, or instructions, that a microprocessor understands. One of the principal characteristics that separates RISC from CISC microprocessors is the size of the instruction set, RISC microprocessors have relatively small instruction sets whereas CISC processors have relatively large instruction sets.

instruction.txt · Last modified: 2011/07/27 15:47 by digineural