chisel

Type of issue: other enhancement

Impact: no functional change

Development Phase: request

Other information
This is more a meta-issue mostly related to the beginners user experience. I think most of these issues are not done by more experienced devs.

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce the problem:

1. Start with [chisel-templat

Summary:
A nice-to-have feature is the ability to enable and disable hardware features from the software.

Examples:

• Enable TSO memory consistency
• Enable watchdog timer
• Change predictor behaviors

High-level thoughts:

• Do not use non-standard Control/Status Registers (CSRs). The address space will get too congested, not indexable, messy to assemble for, etc.
• Inst

See title.
Hardest part is probably icon design, and where to place it

Example:

module Adder : 
    ...
    output io : {..., signed : UInt<1>, ...}

Will cause an output of:

UInt<1> signed;

To which the compiler complains:

error: declaration does not declare anything [-fpermissive]

This is because signed is a C++ keyword, in addition to being the name of that signal.

The behavior should be changed to not emit names that a