The industrial doctorate at Infineon: Pursue a doctoral degree at a university and gain professional experience simultaneously - an ideal start for your career. Advance your research with us and profit from our vast network of doctoral candidates and the expertise of a university. Mentorship is handled by both professors and dedicated Infineon employees. We are offering a doctoral thesis dealing with Generic Code, which is a widely used method to make a given piece of code more widely usable. Examples are macros and conditional code in languages as C or generics and generate statements in HDLs like SystemVerilog or VHDL. As these methods make only parts of a code visible, they are also sometimes called self-generating methods. Since the possibilities of self-generation are limited, code generators come more and more in focus. By completely building a code, code generators overcome most the limitations of self-generating approaches. Code generators however have the disadvantage that even a small change requires a re-generation of the complete design. To get best of both approaches, this PhD Thesis targets the generation of generic code. We offer: • Realistic, challenging, and impactful problems • The possibility of putting problems into an overall context • Collaboration with colleagues and teams that is seldom found anywhere in the world in terms of depth and breadth • A potential 3 months research stays at top universities worldwide and/or Europe wide cooperation of experts as part of funded research activities • An Infineon internal PhD community The thesis will be written in cooperation with Technical University Munich and under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ecker.
The tasks within the thesis will consist of:

• A generic approach for modeling generic target code in a language independent way
• Mapping of this target independent model to a target code specific model and generation of code by un-parsing target code specific models
• Support of various ways to make a code generic, when the target language supports this (e.g. C-Macros, if-statements with conditions, constant range loops with/without compiler unrolling)
• Transformations that fully or partially elaborate the target independent model to fully or partially reduce the genericity in the target code
• Application to SW as well as hardware and verification of the correctness of the generated code, be it fully self generated, partially self generated or nor generic
• The challenge of this work is the aspect of generating generic code, which is a bit like generating generators

This doctoral thesis should also study existing approaches and prove the applicability and get feedback to enhance the methodology.

The learnings out of the thesis will be:

• Generic firmware and hardware design and implementation
• Methodology of 'code generation' in an industrial environment
• Modeling and Meta-Modeling
• Various Modeling and Abstraction concepts and their implementation

A doctoral student is a research enthusiast,
› …whose interests are scientific research combined with the passion for Infineon’s innovative products and applications.
› …who enjoys working in an industrial environment in combination with an Infineon partner university.
› …who appreciates open communication and the contribution of an international environment.
› …and is thus an excellent candidate for a further academic or industrial career after completion of their thesis.

As the ideal candidate you:

• Graduated in computer engineering, electrical engineering or a related field with very good grades
• Are interested in complex, interdisciplinary and interlinked tasks and should like to solve them together with colleagues
• Possess good presentation skills that help you to present challenging issues clearly and simply
• Are curious and open as well as interested in learning and trying out new things
• Are experienced in metamodeling, (template-based) code generation and/or model-driven architecture
• Possess knowledge in object-oriented programming with languages such as C ++ and Python and embedded programming with C and / or Assembler
• Have good knowledge of digital design and RTL modeling in VHDL and / or (System)Verilog and embedded system architectures
• Have knowledge in embedded programming with C
• Are interested in generation and recursive application of generation, e.g. generation of generators
• Possess very good language skills in English and ideally German