RISCProcessors.ppt

1998 RISC Processors Chapter 14 S. Dandamudi Outline Introduction Evolution of CISC processors RISC design principles PowerPC processor Architecture Addressing modes Instruction set Itanium processor Architecture Addressing modes Instruction set Instruction-level parallelism Branch handling Speculative execution Introduction CISC Complex instruction set Pentium is the most popular example RISC Simple instructions Reduced complexity Modern processors use this design philosophy PowerPC, MIPS, SPARC, Intel Itanium Borrow some features from CISC No precise definition We can identify some common