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dissertation is dedicated to friends, family, labmates, and mentors the ones who taught me, indulged me, loved me, challenged me, and laughedwith me, while I was also busy working on my thesis.To Professor Dean Tullsen for teaching me the values of humility, kindness,and caring while trying to teach me football and computer architecture. Foralways encouraging me to do the right thing. For always letting me be myself.For always believing in me. For always challenging me to dream big. For all hiswisdom. And for being an adviser in the truest sense, and more.To Professor Brad Calder. For always caring about me. For being aninspiration. For his trust. For making me believe in myself. For his lies aboutme getting better at system administration and foosball even though I never did.To Dr Partha Ranganathan. For always being there for me when I wouldget down on myself. And that happened often. For the long discussions on life,work, and happiness. For always being willing to listen. For all his infectiousoptimism, enthusiasm, and energy.To Dr. Norman Jouppi. For his wisdom. For his humility. For hisboundless energy and desire to teach. For always wanting me to get better. Mostimportantly, for getting my jokes and laughing even at the bad ones.To Drs. Andrew Kahng and Rajesh Gupta for the always constructivefeedback and discussions, and for holding high standards for excellence. To Dr.Fred Chong for his invaluable comments. To Drs. Ravi Nair, Victor Zyuban, and,..tested for theQ1 PC1 bus cardBoth these projects mere sofixare des elopment efforts tonards contributing to dlfferentaspects of Roboucs and lZ1echatronics projects m the Controls and Roboucs Group..
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