There are various popular instruction sets that are used in the industry and are of theoretical importance. Each one has its own usage and advantages. Following are the instruction set architectures:
- Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC)
- Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC)
- Minimal instruction set computers (MISC)
- Very long instruction word (VLIW)
- Explicitly parallel instruction computing (EPIC)
- One instruction set computer (OISC)
- Zero instruction set computer (ZISC)
Read this article to understand the details of each of the seven Instruction Set
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