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RISC vs CISC

RISC vs CISC. What have mr aldred’s dirty clothes got to do with the cpu. Mr Aldred’s Dirty Laundry. Folding a t shirt. You work in a Tokyo Laundry and there is loads of dirty laundry that needs to be washed, dried, and folded It takes t he washer for 30 minutes,

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RISC vs CISC

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  1. RISC vsCISC What have mraldred’s dirty clothes got to do with the cpu

  2. MrAldred’s Dirty Laundry

  3. Folding a t shirt

  4. You work in a Tokyo Laundry and there is loads of dirty laundry that needs to be washed, dried, and folded • It takes the washer for 30 minutes, • Drying takes 40 minutes, • Folding the clothes takes 20 minutes • Then pick up the second load and wash, dry, and fold, and repeat for the third and fourth loads and firth loads. • Supposing we started at 18:00 and worked as efficiently as possible, what time would you finish? • What is the finish time? • Create a diagram that shows this

  5. What does a processor do?

  6. High Level language to Machine code • We program in High Level Languages e.g. C++. • The CPU deals with machine code. • We need a compiler to convert from our High LL to an Assembly language which in turn is ‘Assembled’ into Machine Code. (LMC) • The complexity of the code the CPU can handle is higher for a CISC processor than a RISC processor. • The more we break a program down into smaller steps the longer the code gets. • The Python interpreter is a program which is compiled to machine code (i.e. bit patterns). When that program runs it interprets (i.e. decodes and executes) your Python program.

  7. RISC Reduced instruction set computing Simple instructions are faster to process What do these complex instruction do? Take this number and store it If the number that is loaded into the accumulator is equal to zero then break the loop Make this more complex Open the door Stand up

  8. RISC • Reduced Instruction Set Computer • Simple hardware • Further away from high level languages • Longer code requiring more RAM • Compiler has to do more work • Every operation takes place in one clock cycle.

  9. CISC • Complex Instruction Set Computer. • More complex hardware • Closer to High Level Language • Less work for the compiler to do • Smaller code requiring less RAM • Some instructions take multiple clock cycles to complete.

  10. Consider how to add two numbers • Load the first number from RAM into a register • Load the second number from RAM into a register • Add them together • Store the answer in a register. 2 + 3 = ?

  11. Why use risc processors then ? • The physical construction of RISC chips is simpler. They need less complicated circuitry as they perform fewer instruction types. • Therefore they can be made… • Smaller • To use less power • To generate less heat

  12. Speed • If we look at a single Fetch-Execute cycle a CISC processor would appear to be much faster as it only has to fetch and decode a single instruction. • However, that instruction may take it several cycles to complete. • A RISC processor would take one cycle per instruction.

  13. Pipelines • To speed up processors we can use pipelines. • To do this we need to break the Fetch –Execute cycle into stages, e.g. • fetch instructions from memory • read registers and decode the instruction • execute the instruction or calculate an address • access an operand in data memory • write the result into a register • Instead of taking (4 x 5 = 20) cycles the CPU can process 4 lines of code in just 8 cycles.

  14. Why pipelines don’t work as well with CISC processors. • Each line of RISC code takes 1 cycle to execute. • CISC code can take 1, 2 or more cycles to execute. • Therefore the compiler has a harder job of queuing up the jobs in the pipelines of CISC processors. • The ‘larger’ commands, particularly branched commands can cause the pipelines to ‘stall’ which slows the computer down.

  15. Key questions • What is the comparison between the laundry and the RISC processing • What are the RISC instructions • Does the Laundry task represent CISC? • Where is the pipelining comparison? • What impact does it have on the washing? • How could the Laundry Task be written for a CISC?

  16. Discuss the relativemerits of CISC and RISC architectures when a chip manufacturer is planninga new processor

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