US PATENT SUBCLASS 712 / 41
.~.~ RISC

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712 /   HD   ELECTRICAL COMPUTERS AND DIGITAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS: PROCESSING ARCHITECTURES AND INSTURCTION PROCESSING (E.G., PROCESSORS)

1  DF  PROCESSING ARCHITECTURE {7}
32  DF  .~ Microprocessor or multichip or multimodule processor having sequential program control {7}
41.~.~ RISC

DEFINITION

Classification: 712/41

RISC:

(under subclass 32) Subject matter wherein the set of processing instructions available is relatively small and rapidly executable (i.e., Reduced Instruction Set Computing) and a new instruction is fetched during the time when a previous instruction is executed.