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