Timothy Chen
Platform Architecture
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothy Chen is a platform architect with nine years post-graduate experience and a 20+-year engineering trajectory in silicon, SoC and security design across marquee companies including Apple, Google and Broadcom. He led chip and security efforts on Google's Titan family and served as staff hardware engineer and silicon architect for the OpenTitan open-source root-of-trust project, contributing low-level flash controller and arbitration improvements to a widely respected security silicon repository. His background spans digital design for wireless SOCs to processor cluster subsystems, cache-coherency and system power management, blending hands-on RTL/embedded work with high-level platform strategy. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and drawing on Berkeley EECS and Haas training, he brings a rare combination of deep hardware competence, open-source collaboration, and product-focused architecture experience.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
EECS, EECS at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Github Skills (6)
verilog10
embedded10
flash-memory10
systemverilog10
sys10
i2c8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lowRISC/opentitan
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
OpenTitan: Open source silicon root of trust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:5194 reviews, 1393 commits, 2091 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:The user, Timothy Chen, contributed to the OpenTitan project by modifying the Flash Controller (flash_ctrl) and other hardware-related components, specifically focusing on aspects related to memory control, addressing, and the integration of features like scrambling. His contributions included refactoring code, handling potential error conditions, and adding functionality to support both host and controller modes. Chen's work encompassed modifying existing code for enhanced performance and reliability. Further contributions involved the use of the `prim_arbiter_tree` as a replacement for the arbitration mechanism as well as making various corrections to the register files.
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tjaychen/opentitan
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
OpenTitan: Open source silicon root of trust
Contributions:1 PR, 2509 pushes, 1797 branches in 3 years 3 months
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