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Niklas Rosencrantz
Niklas Rosencrantz

Reputation: 26655

What's the difference between MIPS and RISC?

It says that MIPS is a type of RISC. What is the history? Are both formats / instruction models / programming models, how to tell MIPS from RISC? Is RISC a wider concept?

Upvotes: 13

Views: 18621

Answers (2)

mtk
mtk

Reputation: 13709

From the taginfo page:

MIPS is a common RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) ISA (Instruction Set Architecture), one of the first of its kind. Currently, MIPS can refer to both a hardware implementation of the ISA and the assembly language itself.

Upvotes: 5

John Watts
John Watts

Reputation: 8865

Yes. RISC is a wider concept. MIPS is RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Chip) architecture. Reduced (RISC) architectures tend to be simpler and have a small number of operations. Complex (CISC) architectures like x86 have more instructions, some of which take the place of a sequence of RISC instructions.

Upvotes: 13

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