Wednesday, 16 March 2016

CISC sometimes beats RISC in wearables

In a world of RISC processors, QuickLogic created a CISC co-processor for its EOS multi-core sensor hub chip to save power in wearables. The co-processing core is called the ‘flexible fusion engine’ (FFE, diagram below). “We worked out the power needed to do a 32bit read from memory was 10x the power needed for multiplication, and ...

CISC sometimes beats RISC in wearables



from ElectronicsWeekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/cisc-sometimes-beats-risc-in-wearables-2016-03/

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