Eric Loeffler

Working as secure firmware development engineer Responsibilities: Firmware development and verification for an ARM Cortex based secure microcontroler. Testbench development and verification, characterization support. Competence: Flash memory support and management libraries. Embedded C and assembly on ARM cortex M33 microcontroller. Secure code development

Working as digital design engineer Responsibilities: Technical team lead responsible for a debugging extension of a secure microcontroller platform. Milestone planing and project alignment. Firmware and hardware development, from digital module and JTAG communication interface with embedded debugging loader and monitor code, to JTAG adapter with Host system integration. Toolchain integration with custom eclipse extension and GDB client and server. Competence: Concept and specification of the debugging extension. Breakdown into work packages and team assignment. VHDL digital design, simulation and verification. Embedded C and assembly on a proprietary secure microcontroller platform. C++ toolchain extension. Secure debugging methodologies.

Working as toolchain development engineer Responsibilities: Compiler optimization. Low-level library development for a 8051 derivative microcontroler. Toolchain verification Competence: Compiler and Linker architecture and optimization strategies. Low-level assembly standard code library optimization for a 8051 microcontroller derivative. Code signature tools implementation and verification. Automated compiler benchmark and performance testbench in python.

Guest Lecturer for Embedded Systems at the University of Applied Sciences munich.

Working as Digital Design Engineer in the Application Verification and Validation Team Responsibilities: Firmware concept and development for MSP430, ARM and other proprietary MCUs, Firmware verification, simulation and modeling with Cadence EDA tools Competence: Embedded software concept and development in C/C++ and Assembler, Verification of embedded firmware with EDA tools and FPGA prototyping systems

Working as Software and System Engineer in the Tools and Software team Responsibilities: Firmware concept and development for MSP430, ARM and other proprietary MCUs, Tools project team member for the various MSP430 products Competence: Embedded software concept and development in C/C++ and Assembler, Verification of embedded firmware with EDA tools and FPGA prototyping systems, Hardware design for embedded programming and debugging tools

Deployed at Texas Instruments Germany as Software Engineer Responsibilities: MSP430 Bootcode and firmware development, Tools Core Team Member for the MSP430Gxxx value line Competence: Embedded software development in C/C++ and Assembler, hardware design for embedded programming and debugging tools