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MIPS and SPIM

There will be 9 projects a mid-term, and a comprehensive final. Your project grade makes up a total of 80% of your grade and the exams are worth 10% each:

Mid-Term (Fri. 30 Oct)	10%
Final TBA	10%
Projects	80%

An old midterm exam from the Fall of 2006.
An old final exam from the Fall of 2004.

This is the expected outline for the course.

• Overview and Intro to SML
• Simple Control Flow
• Global Variables
• Parsing Combinators
• Lexical Analysis
• Parsing and Abstract Syntax
• First-order Procedures
• Data Types
• Closures
• Type Checking
• Type Inference
• Garbage Collection
• Objects and Classes
• Algebraic Optimization
• Control-Flow Graphs
• Dataflow Analysis
• Register Allocation
• More Analysis and Optimization
• Instruction Selection
• Cool Topics: ???

Fri. 18 Sep	Project 1: SML Warmup	6 points
Fri. 2 Oct	Project 2: A Fortran-ish Front End	8 points
Fri. 9 Oct	Project 3: A Fortran-ish Back End	8 points
Mon. 19 Oct	Project 4: A C-ish Back End	8 points
Mon. 26 Oct	Project 5: From Scheme-ish to C-ish	8 points
Wed. Nov 4	Project 6: From ML-ish to Scheme-ish	8 points
Wed. Nov 11	Project 7: Algebraic Optimization	8 points
Wed. Nov 18	Project 8: Liveness Analysis	10 points
Wed. Dec 2	Project 9: Register Allocation	10 points

Students may work with a partner on the projects (except for Project 1) (and I encourage this because there's a lot of coding here!)

There will also be ample opportunity for extra credit by augmenting your compiler (or that language we're compiling) with new features or optimizations. However, a word of warning: the extra credit only applies if the rest of the compiler is working.

If you turn in a project component late, then points will be deducted; you will lose one point per day for late projects.