Frances: Tools for languages, compilers, and architecture

These pages describe work carried out on design implementation, and applications of the Frances tool.

News

December 2010: Paper on Frances-A tool accepted for CCSC 2011.

September 2010: Initial release of Frances-A tool.

March 2010: Support added for MIPS assembly and x86 intel syntax.

January 2010: Tutorial on Frances tool accepted for CCSC 2010.

October 2009: Paper on Frances tool accepted for SIGCSE 2010.

August 2009: Technical Report: Frances: A Tool For Understanding Code Generation , ISU, 2009.

People Involved in the Frances Project


Faculty

Hridesh Rajan  

Hridesh Rajan is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Iowa State University where he has been since August 2005. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Virginia in 2005. He received his undergraduate degree from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University(IT-BHU) in 2000. Before his graduate studies at UVA, he worked for Lucent Technologies, India (Bell Labs, India) as a Member of Technical Staff. Hridesh's research interests include programming language design and implementation and software engineering. Professor Rajan is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2009 and LAS Award for Early Achievement in Research in 2010. He can be reached at hridesh@iastate.edu.

Kian L. Pokorny

Kian L. Pokorny is Associate Professor and Chair of the Division of Computing at McKendree University. He can be reached at

klpokorny (at) mckendree (dot) edu
.


Current Students

Tyler Sondag

Tyler Sondag received his PhD from the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University in Fall 2011. His thesis was titled "Phase-based tuning: better utilized performance asymmetric multicores". His adviser was Dr. Hridesh Rajan. His research interests at the time were in program analysis and optimization. He currently works for Intel Labs in Santa Clara, CA. He can be reached at sondag@iastate.edu.