GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -A coprocessor is a computer processor used to supplement the functions of the primary processor (the CPU). Operations performed by the coprocessor may be floating-point arithmetic, graphics, signal processing, string processing, cryptography or I/O interfacing with peripheral devices.

Detailed explanation-2: -A supplementary processor like a Coprocessor is mainly used in computers to achieve special tasks like graphical display processing & wide arithmetic calculations. This processor is is designed to perform such tasks very efficiently as compared to the CPU, thus overall computer speed can be increased.

Detailed explanation-3: -The main difference between processor and coprocessor is that the processor is the main processing unit of the computer that performs arithmetic, logic and control operations according to the instructions while the coprocessor is a specialized processor that supports the main processor.