Differentiate between RISC and CISC

CISC

• Emphasis on hardware
• Includes multi-clock complex 

  instructions
• Memory-to-memory: 

  "LOAD" and "STORE" 

  incorporated in instructions
• Small code sizes,

  high cycles per second
• Transistors used for storing 

  complex instructions

RISC

• Emphasis on software
• Single-clock, reduced instruction only
• Register to register: "LOAD" and "STORE" are independent instructions
• Low cycles per second, large code sizes.
• Spends more transistors on memory registers