Paul Rigge

Procs can't use the same codegen path as functions that nicely splits out pipeline stages b/c flow control interferes with how it figures out pipeline stages.

I thought there was a bug for this already, but I'm not finding it. Block conversion is a monolith that should be broken up into more manageable pieces. Block conversion...

ModuleGeneratorResult should have signatures for every block

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During my multi-proc refactor (#950), I've found that `ModuleGeneratorResult` only has a slot for one module signature. I'm stopping for now in the interest of landing something, and the top...

Move codegen metadata into IR

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`StreamingIOPipeline` holds a lot of metadata from block conversion. It's easy for a codegen pass to invalidate pointers there and hard to keep everything up to date. Ideally, more of...

Right now it's a noop. Related: #499

Channels should be encapsulated by procs in the IR

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Right now, channels are global and procs can arbitrarily reference them. This freedom doesn't necessarily buy that much as codegen needs to plumb them up and down the hierarchy eventually...

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I think it would be a good idea to convert our documentation to read the docs. This would bring things more in-line with the rest of chipyard.

When building rocket-dsptools, want to be able to do ```sbt -DROCKET_USE_SOURCE=path/to/rocketchip/src/dir``` @harrisonliew