Brock Allen

• Developing distributed OS and ML runtime.
• Device driver development.

Projects Delivered

• X430

• Designed and implemented an RTOS and Linux stack to drive a custom NPU.
• Brought up BSP for various SOCs that contain custom hardware IPs.
• Enabled anonymous metrics for millions of devices in field.
• Developed TVM compiler backend for custom ML accelerator.
• Developed framework to offload non-linear ML operators to a deeply embedded RISC-V core.
• Developed an ML runtime for memory constrained systems. Under 20KB.
• Designed cache optimizations for ML runtime.
• Device driver development from scratch.

Products Delivered

• Echo 4th gen - First Amazon device with AZ1 chip. Runs local ASR
• Echo Show 15 - AZ2 runs CV and ASR locally
• Blink Outdoor 4 - Small NPU runs CV
• Ring Indoor Cam - Small NPU runs CV
• Echo Show 5 - CV and ASR
• Echo Dot 5th Gen - AZ2 ASR

• Developed a sensor to cloud demo application to showcase Zigbee network.
• Contributed to development of the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC network stack.
• Designed a voice over IEEE 802.15.4 application.
• Designed an over the air download and update extension for TI firmware.

Projects Delivered

• Sensor To Cloud - Zigbee gateway with AWS integration
• TI 15.4 Stack - IEEE 802.15.4 network stack