RISC and CISC

At the start of independent study for the topic “Comparison of RISC and CISC architecture on Cloud computing Infrastructure”; I decided to go through basics about RISC and CISC architecture to brush up my knowledge.

I read few articles and here is the outline:

CISC (complex instruction set computer) as the name suggests has complex instructions. The main goal is achieving task in less number of instructions. Emphasis is on hardware that understands and performs instruction. RISC (Reduced instruction set computer) emphasize on software and has simple instructions that can be executed within one clock cycle.