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

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classification is by architectural complexity. A complex instruction set computer (CISC) has many specialized instructions, some of which may only be rarely used...

Compared to the instructions given to a complex instruction set computer (CISC), a RISC computer might require more instructions (more code) in order to...

Sony Group Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered at Sony City in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The Sony Group encompasses various...

Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee (CISC) is the statutory office that heads the Integrated Defence Staff (IDS), the...

Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC; French: Service canadien de renseignements criminels) is an inter-agency organization in Canada designed to...

It was the original system programming language for the Tandem Computers CISC machines, which had no assembler. The design concept of TAL, an evolution...

CISC Semiconductor GmbH is a semiconductor company founded in 1999 focused on the automotive branch and radio frequency technology (RFID). The main office...

breaking application compatibility. Early systems were based on a 48-bit CISC instruction set architecture known as the Internal Microprogrammed Interface...

capability. The VAX ISA is considered a complex instruction set computer (CISC) design. DEC quickly dropped the −11 branding as PDP-11 compatibility was...

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m68000, m68k, or 68k) is a family of 32-bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) microprocessors. During the 1980s and early 1990s, they were popular in...

variable-length. Usually it is RISC architectures that have fixed encoding length and CISC architectures that have variable length, but not always. The table below...

ISAs include CISC (complex instruction set computer), RISC (reduced instruction set computer), vector operations, and hybrid modes. CISC involves using...

Integrated Defence Staff to the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee (CISC) of the Indian Armed Forces and the Former 15 Corps (XV Corps) in Kashmir...

Intelligence Service Canada (CISC) has designated the IP as being a member of indigenous-based organized crime (IBOC). CISC asserts that the Indian Posse...

"sixty-eight-thousand") is a 16/32-bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) microprocessor, introduced in 1979 by Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector...

share. In many CISCs, an instruction could access either registers or memory, usually in several different ways. This made the CISCs easier to program...

registers. This differs from a register–memory architecture (for example, a CISC instruction set architecture such as x86) in which one of the operands for...

80x86 or the 8086 family) is a family of complex instruction set computer (CISC) instruction set architectures initially developed by Intel, based on the...

microcode-implemented instruction sets was later called complex instruction set computer (CISC). An alternate approach, used in many microprocessors, is to use one or more...

assembly language has more instructions than hardware assembly languages, even CISC processors. This is because the marginal cost of creating a new instruction...

being the Burroughs large systems. Other examples include the CISC HP 3000 machines and the CISC machines from Tandem Computers. The x87 floating point architecture...

instruction set computing (RISC) and complex instruction set computing (CISC) architectures for all general-purpose applications. When first released...

Indian Army. He previously served as the Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (CISC). He previously served as General Officer Commanding Uttar Bharat Area, prior...

not particularly descriptive, especially so the CISC label; many early designs retroactively denoted "CISC" are in fact significantly simpler than modern...

design is something that had been argued being impossible to implement for a CISC instruction set, by certain academics and RISC competitors.[who?] Other central...

Alpha was designed to replace 32-bit VAX complex instruction set computers (CISC) and to be a highly competitive RISC processor for Unix workstations and...

the processor would translate code designed to run on the traditionally CISC-based x86 architecture to run on the chip's internal RISC architecture. The...