Work In Progress

it is planned that smalldragon should get an AVR Backend and be able to generate assembly code in the AVR Instructions Set

AVR Instruction Set Manual
AVR Instruction Set (Wikipedia)

Motivations

• The AVR Instruction Set is a RISC Instruction Set.
• The Chips (currently being produced by Microchip) are reasonably inexpensive and easy to come by.
• Variety of good open source emulators available.

Drawbacks

The Registers are only 8 bit wide.

Tooling

Developing a Compiler Backend requires some tooling to test the generated machine code.
I have come across a variety of good Simulators for the AVR Architecture.

• Gerd's AVR Simulator(GUI based Simulator)
• libvmcu(C Library)
• simavr

Memory Layout Used

TODO

Calling Convention

TODO

TODO List

• [ ] 3-Address-Code Generation
• [ ] Optimizations on the 3-Address-Code
• [ ] Control Flow Graph with Basic Blocks
• [ ] Register Allocation
• [ ] ...