1.1.2 - RISC and CISC / GPU / parallel systems

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describe RISC

  • small instruction set, think of LMC

  • used in computers

  • piplining possible as each instruction takes 1 clock-cycle

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describe CISC

  • large instruction set, more specialised instructions

  • used in embedded systems / micro-controllers

  • less memory needed to store the code

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describe GPU

  • type of processor consisting of multiple independent processors

  • …which makes it efficient for machine learning / image processing

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describe parallel systems

  • a parallel system is a computer system that achieves concurrency by using multiple processing units

  • some examples:

    • multi-core CPUs

    • GPUs