Practice Advantages Of Risc Over Cisc (8.1.2) - Modern Microcontrollers: RISC and ARM
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Advantages of RISC Over CISC

Practice - Advantages of RISC Over CISC

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Question 1 Easy

What does RISC stand for?

💡 Hint: It's in the title!

Question 2 Easy

List one advantage of RISC over CISC.

💡 Hint: Think about execution time!

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Question 1

What is a primary advantage of RISC over CISC?

Higher instruction complexity
Lower power consumption
More intricate designs

💡 Hint: Consider the efficiency of instruction execution.

Question 2

True or False: RISC architectures typically have a fixed instruction length.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about how this affects instruction retrieval.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Explain how RISC architectures can still have effective performance in scenarios requiring high computational intensity despite their simple instruction set.

💡 Hint: Think about how workloads and processing are managed in RISC designs.

Challenge 2 Hard

Create a case study comparing two applications (one using RISC and one using CISC) focusing on their performance and efficiency.

💡 Hint: Consider how different scenarios work.

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