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The impact of process variations and wear-out mechanisms in current and next generation technology nodes is becoming relevant and cannot be compensated at the device or architectural level. Intra-die process variations raising at the core level and platform level makes parallel multicore platforms intrinsically heterogeneous, because the various cores are clocked at different operational frequencies...