Question

What is a single purpose processor?

Answer 1

Single Purpose Processor

• Single purpose processor is design to execute only one program.
  
• It perform particular computation task.
  
• So it have faster performance.
  
• Size of single purpose processor is small.
  
• Power consumption is low.
  
• Size is small means it have less multiplexers.
  
• No program memory.
  
• Coprocessor, Floating point processing and peripherals are the example of single purpose processor.
  
• The datapath contains only required components.