CS 6120: Advanced Compilers

Instructor: Adrian Sampson
TA: Kei Imada
When: Tuesday and Thursday, 10:10–11:25am
Where: Gates 114 & Bloomberg 91
Office hours: by appointment (DM Adrian or Kei on Zulip to find a time)

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Latest Blog Posts

Dec 16

From Allo to XLS: Bridging Hardware Accelerator DSLs Through Traditional Compilation to ASIC Backends

Dec 16

[bracket]: Bridging Bril and Racket Educational Compilers

Dec 16

ChocoPy2Bril: Translating ChocoPy to Bril

Dec 16

Facade Layout Compiler

Dec 16

Predicated SSA and SLP vectorization

Dec 16

Using Constraint Programming for tiling and fusion in tensor programs

Dec 15

BrilIR: an MLIR dialect for Bril

See all posts on the course blog.

Acknowledgment

Many thanks to Zulip for sponsoring a free hosting plan for us. Zulip is a wonderful, open-source communication tool that works great for discussion-focused classes like ours.