Qualcomm interview question

-difference between RISC and CISC,advantage -which of the above takes less time for decoding

Interview Answers

Anonymous

Nov 17, 2013

CISC because even though the instruction set is complex, code length is less compared to RISC, so decoding time is less for CISC

Anonymous

Nov 9, 2015

CISC:- less instruction in program, more clock cycle require to decode the instruction, complex hardware. RISC:- more instruction in program, single clock cycle require to decode the instruction, simple hardware.