A one-instruction set computer (OISC), sometimes referred to as an ultimate reduced instruction set computer (URISC), is an abstract machine that uses...

A complex instruction set computer (CISC /ˈsɪsk/) is a computer architecture in which single instructions can execute several low-level operations (such...

In electronics and computer science, a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) (pronounced "risk") is a computer architecture designed to simplify the...

Minimal instruction set computer (MISC) is a central processing unit (CPU) architecture, usually in the form of a microprocessor, with a very small number...

In computer science, an instruction set architecture (ISA) is an abstract model that generally defines how software controls the CPU in a computer or...

Reduced instruction set computer Complex instruction set computer Explicitly parallel instruction computing Minimal instruction set computer Very long...

An instruction set architecture (ISA) is an abstract model of a computer, also referred to as computer architecture. A realization of an ISA is called...

In computer engineering, an orthogonal instruction set is an instruction set architecture where all instruction types can use all addressing modes. It...

carbon nanotube computer from 2013 is a 1-bit one-instruction set computer (and has only 178 transistors; since it has only one instruction though it can...

an executable program, often stored as a computer file and executed on the processor. The x86 instruction set has been extended several times, introducing...

Very long instruction word (VLIW) refers to instruction set architectures that are designed to exploit instruction-level parallelism (ILP). A VLIW processor...

challenge and amuse programmers. Brainfuck requires one to break down commands into small and simple instructions. The language takes its name from the slang...

MMX is a single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) instruction set architecture designed by Intel, introduced on January 8, 1997 with its Pentium P5 (microarchitecture)...

typically includes one or more instruction set simulators. To simulate the machine code of another hardware device or entire computer for upward compatibility...

researchers at HP recognized that reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architectures were reaching a limit at one instruction per cycle.[clarification needed]...

a computer instruction set architecture (ISA), an execute instruction is a machine language instruction which treats data as a machine instruction and...

architecture instruction set Computer program, a collection of instructions Instruction (band), a 2002 rock band from New York City, US "Instruction" (song)...

originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) for computer processors. Arm Holdings develops the ISAs and licenses...

The Little Man Computer (LMC) is an instructional model of a computer, created by Dr. Stuart Madnick in 1965. The LMC is generally used to teach students...

include the instruction set architecture design, microarchitecture design, logic design, and implementation. The first documented computer architecture...

INT3 instruction is a one-byte-instruction defined for use by debuggers to temporarily replace an instruction in a running program in order to set a code...

design or due to shifts in technology. Computer architecture is the combination of microarchitecture and instruction set architecture. The ISA is roughly the...

jump or transfer is an instruction in a computer program that can cause a computer to begin executing a different instruction sequence and thus deviate...

Visual Instruction Set, or VIS, is a SIMD instruction set extension for SPARC V9 microprocessors developed by Sun Microsystems. There are five versions...

In computer architecture, instructions per cycle (IPC), commonly called instructions per clock, is one aspect of a processor's performance: the average...

In computer programming, machine code is computer code consisting of machine language instructions, which are used to control a computer's central processing...

In computer science, self-modifying code (SMC or SMoC) is code that alters its own instructions while it is executing – usually to reduce the instruction...

logic units (ALUs), central processing units (CPUs), and software instruction sets. In ALUs, the opcode is directly applied to circuitry via an input...

Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus at UC Berkeley. Patterson is noted for his pioneering contributions to reduced instruction set computer (RISC) design...

Bit manipulation instructions sets (BMI sets) are extensions to the x86 instruction set architecture for microprocessors from Intel and AMD. The purpose...