-\section{\CLaSH\ prototype}
-
-The \CLaSH language as presented above can be translated to \VHDL using
-the prototype \CLaSH compiler. This compiler allows experimentation with
-the \CLaSH language and allows for running \CLaSH designs on actual FPGA
-hardware.
-
-\comment{Add clash pipeline image}
-The prototype heavily uses \GHC, the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Figure
-TODO shows the \CLaSH compiler pipeline. As you can see, the frontend
-is completely reused from \GHC, which allows the \CLaSH prototype to
-support most of the Haskell Language. The \GHC frontend produces the
-program in the \emph{Core} format, which is a very small, functional,
-typed language which is relatively easy to process.
-
-The second step in the compilation process is \emph{normalization}. This
-step runs a number of \emph{meaning preserving} transformations on the
-Core program, to bring it into a \emph{normal form}. This normal form
-has a number of restrictions that make the program similar to hardware.
-In particular, a program in normal form no longer has any polymorphism
-or higher order functions.
-
-The final step is a simple translation to \VHDL.
+ As both the \hs{run} function, the hardware description, and the test
+ inputs are plain Haskell, the complete simulation can be compiled to an
+ executable binary by an optimizing Haskell compiler, or executed in an
+ Haskell interpreter. Both simulation paths are much faster than first
+ translating the description to \VHDL\ and then running a \VHDL\
+ simulation, where the executable binary has an additional simulation speed
+ bonus in case there is a large set of test inputs.
+
+\section{\CLaSH\ compiler}
+An important aspect in this research is the creation of the prototype compiler, which allows us to translate descriptions made in the \CLaSH\ language as described in the previous section to synthesizable \VHDL, allowing a designer to actually run a \CLaSH\ design on an \acro{FPGA}.
+
+The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (\GHC) is an open-source Haskell compiler that
+also provides a high level API to most of its internals. The availability of
+this high-level API obviated the need to design many of the tedious parts of
+the prototype compiler, such as the parser, semantic checker, and especially
+the type-checker. The parser, semantic checker, and type-checker together form
+the front-end of the prototype compiler pipeline, as depicted in
+\Cref{img:compilerpipeline}.
+
+\begin{figure}
+\centerline{\includegraphics{compilerpipeline.svg}}
+\caption{\CLaSHtiny\ compiler pipeline}
+\label{img:compilerpipeline}
+\end{figure}
+
+The output of the \GHC\ front-end is the original Haskell description
+translated to \emph{Core}~\cite{Sulzmann2007}, which is smaller, functional,
+typed language that is relatively easier to process than the larger Haskell
+language. A description in \emph{Core} can still contain properties which have
+no direct translation to hardware, such as polymorphic types and
+function-valued arguments. Such a description needs to be transformed to a
+\emph{normal form}, which only contains properties that have a direct
+translation. The second stage of the compiler, the \emph{normalization} phase
+exhaustively applies a set of \emph{meaning-preserving} transformations on the
+\emph{Core} description until this description is in a \emph{normal form}.
+This set of transformations includes transformations typically found in
+reduction systems for lambda calculus, such a $\beta$-reduction and
+$\eta$-expansion, but also includes \emph{defunctionalization} transformations
+which reduce higher-order functions to `regular' first-order functions.
+
+The final step in the compiler pipeline is the translation to a \VHDL\
+\emph{netlist}, which is a straightforward process due to resemblance of a
+normalized description and a set of concurrent signal assignments. We call the
+end-product of the \CLaSH\ compiler a \VHDL\ \emph{netlist} as the resulting
+\VHDL\ resembles an actual netlist description and not idiomatic \VHDL.