Instruction pipeline — Pipelining redirects here. For HTTP pipelining, see HTTP pipelining. Basic five stage pipeline in a RISC machine (IF = Instruction Fetch, ID = Instruction Decode, EX = Execute, MEM = Memory access, WB = Register write back). In the fourth clock… … Wikipedia
Reduced instruction set computer — The acronym RISC (pronounced risk ), for reduced instruction set computing, represents a CPU design strategy emphasizing the insight that simplified instructions which do less may still provide for higher performance if this simplicity can be… … Wikipedia
Complex instruction set computing — A complex instruction set computer (CISC) ( /ˈsɪs … Wikipedia
Complex instruction set computer — A complex instruction set computer (CISC, pronounced like sisk ) is a microprocessor instruction set architecture (ISA) in which each instruction can execute several low level operations, such as a load from memory, an arithmetic operation, and a … Wikipedia
Visual Instruction Set — Visual Instruction Set, or VIS, is a SIMD instruction set for SPARC CPUs, implemented on all UltraSPARC and some SPARC64 processors.There are three versions of VIS. VIS 1.0 and VIS 2.0 are included in existing SPARC processor designs; VIS 3.0 is… … Wikipedia
History of general purpose CPUs — The history of general purpose CPUs is a continuation of the earlier history of computing hardware. 1950s: early designs Each of the computer designs of the early 1950s was a unique design; there were no upward compatible machines or computer… … Wikipedia
x86 — This article is about Intel microprocessor architecture in general. For the 32 bit generation of this architecture which is also called x86 , see IA 32. x86 Designer Intel, AMD Bits 16 bit, 32 bit, and/or 64 bit Introduced 1978 Design … Wikipedia
Microcontroller — The die from an Intel 8742, an 8 bit microcontroller that includes a CPU running at 12 MHz, 128 bytes of RAM, 2048 bytes of EPROM, and I/O in the same chip. A microcontroller (sometimes abbreviated µC, uC or MCU) is a small computer on a single… … Wikipedia
Microarchitecture — Computer organization redirects here. For organizations that make computers, see List of computer system manufacturers. For one classification of computer architectures, see Flynn s taxonomy. For another classification of instruction set… … Wikipedia
Computer architecture — In computer science and engineering, computer architecture is the practical art of selecting and interconnecting hardware components to create computers that meet functional, performance and cost goals and the formal modelling of those systems.… … Wikipedia
Tandem Computers — A Tandem Computers promotional mug Tandem Computers, Inc. was the dominant manufacturer of fault tolerant computer systems for ATM networks, banks, stock exchanges, telephone switching centers, and other similar commercial transaction processing… … Wikipedia
