A compiler translates (or compiles) a program written in a high-level programming language that is suitable for human programmers into the low-level machine language that is required by computers.

The goal of the front end of a compiler is to produce an abstract syntax tree (AST) representing the structure of the program and then to convert that AST into some sort of Intermediate Representation ...

A novel type of hardware accelerators called automata processors (APs) have been proposed to accelerate finite-state automata. The bone structure of an AP is a hierarchical routing matrix that ...