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Compare RISC and CISC architectures with any four points.
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Sr No. | CISC | RISC |
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1 | Emphasis on hardware | Emphasis on software |
2 | multiple instruction sizes and formats | instructions of same set with few formats |
3 | less registers | uses more registers |
4 | more addressing modes | fewer addressing modes |
5 | extensive use of microprogramming | complexity in compiler |
6 | instructions take a varying amount of cycle time | instructions take one cycle time |
7 | pipelining is difficult | pipelining is easy |