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Microarchitectural Approaches for Optimizing Power and Profitability in Multi-core Processors

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A DYNAMIC RECONFIGURATION FRAMEWORK TO MAXIMIZE PERFORMANCE/POWER IN ASYMMETRIC MULTICORE PROCESSORS