RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) instructions are typically fixed length while CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computing) instructions are typically variable length. Instructions of the IBM z/Architecture are CISC instructions having a length of 2, 4 or 6 bytes. The Program counter 5061 is ...
InSymmetric Multiprocessing, each processor has their owncacheand all processors are connected using a shared bus. As there is a shared memory, all processors are sharing the same memory address space. One limitation of this method is when the number of processors increases it might get slow in...
SPARC (derived from Scalable Processor ARChitecture) is a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) developed by Sun Microsystems. These SPARC microprocessors can be found in notebooks to supercomputers such as enterprise servers. They run operating systems like Solaris,...