- complex instruction set computer by Nolan Knight
See CISC.
- Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada by WordNet
nounAn agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies.synonyms: CISC
- RISC by Timothy Burke
... instruction set computers" (CISC computers). No MicrocodeIn a RISC computer, there is no microcode layer, and the associated overhead of that translation is eliminated. RISC keeps instruction size constant and bans the indirect addressing mode. It retains only those instructions that can be overlapped and made to execute in one machine cycle or less. RISC ...
- complex instruction set computer by WordNet
nounComputer science. ( a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip).synonyms: complex instruction set computing, CISC
- microcode by Caitlyn Vasquez
A set of elementary instructions in a complex instruction set computer (CISC). The microcode resides in a separate high-speed memory and functions as a translation layer between the machine instructions and the circuit level of the computer. Microcode enables the computer designer to create ...