The Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) characteristics are:

(a) Single cycle instruction execution

(b) Variable length instruction formats

(c) Instructions that manipulates operands in memory

(d) Efficient instruction pipeline

Choose the correct characteristics from the options given below:

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  1. (a) and (b)
  2. (b) and (c)
  3. (a) and (d)
  4. (c) and (d)

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Option 3 : (a) and (d)
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Statement a:  Correct:

RISC has pipelined implementations with the goal of executing one instruction per machine cycle.

Statement b:  Incorrect

RISC has fixed length instruction formats

Statement c:  Incorrect

c – RISC can perform only Register to Register Arithmetic operations

Statement d:  Correct

d – RISC has efficient instruction pipeline

Therefore, statement a and d are correct.
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