A reduction in {HEAD ~ the processing power} of {TAIL ~ the MCU} occurs if the link accomplishes in hardware some of the functions normally achieved in software and firmware 
A reduction in { HEAD ~ the processing power } of { TAIL ~ the MCU } occurs if the link accomplishes in hardware some of the functions normally achieved in software and firmware
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