Introduction to Compiler Design

• Overview of compilers and their role in the software development process
• Phases of a compiler and their functions
• Types of programming languages and their impact on compiler design

Lexical Analysis

• Lexical structure and tokenization
• Regular expressions and their use in pattern matching
• Building lexical analyzers using finite automata or regular expressions

Syntax Analysis

• Context-free grammars and their notation
• Top-down parsing techniques (LL parsing)
• Bottom-up parsing techniques (LR parsing)

Syntax-Directed Translation

• Syntax-directed definitions and attributes
• Syntax-directed translation schemes
• Implementing syntax-directed translation using attribute grammars

Semantic Analysis

• Semantic rules and their importance
• Symbol tables and their organization
• Type checking and type inference

Intermediate Code Generation

• Intermediate representations (abstract syntax trees, three-address code)
• Translation schemes and code generation algorithms
• Generating intermediate code from high-level language constructs

Code Optimization

• Principles of code optimization
• Control flow analysis and optimization techniques
• Data flow analysis and optimization techniques

Code Generation

• Target machine models and instruction selection
• Register allocation and assignment
• Instruction scheduling and peephole optimization

Symbol Table Management

• Designing and implementing symbol tables
• Scope resolution and name binding
• Handling dynamic scoping and nested scopes

Run-Time Environments

• Run-time support for programming languages
• Stack frames and activation records
• Memory management (stack allocation, heap allocation)

Introduction to Optimization Techniques

• Compiler optimization techniques
• Loop optimizations (loop unrolling, loop fusion, loop interchange)
• Data dependence analysis and optimization

Introduction to Parallel and Distributed Compilation

• Overview of parallel and distributed compilation
• Parallelization techniques for compiler phases
• Distributed compilation and remote code generation

Error Handling and Debugging

• Handling compiler errors and reporting meaningful messages
• Debugging techniques for compilers
• Profiling and performance analysis tools for compilers

Compiler Construction Tools

• Overview of popular compiler construction tools (Lex, Yacc/Bison, ANTLR, etc.)
• Using compiler generation tools to build a compiler