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       development.
     \stopitemize
 
       development.
     \stopitemize
 

-    \todo{Sidenote: No EDSL}

 
 

+    \placeintermezzo{}{
+      \startframedtext[width=8cm,background=box,frame=no]
+      \startalignment[center]
+        {\tfa No \small{EDSL} or Template Haskell}
+      \stopalignment
+      \blank[medium]
+
+      Note that in this consideration, embedded domain-specific
+      languages (\small{EDSL}) and Template Haskell (\small{TH})
+      approaches have not been included. As we've seen in
+      \in{section}[sec:context:fhdls], these approaches have all kinds
+      of limitations on the description language that we would like to
+      avoid.
+      \stopframedtext
+    }

     Considering that we required a prototype which should be working quickly,
     and that implementing parsers, semantic checkers and especially
     typcheckers is not exactly the core of this research (but it is lots and
     Considering that we required a prototype which should be working quickly,
     and that implementing parsers, semantic checkers and especially
     typcheckers is not exactly the core of this research (but it is lots and


@@ -66,8 +80,7 @@
     However, \small{EDIF} is not completely tool-independent. It specifies a
     meta-format, but the hardware components that can be used vary between
     various tool and hardware vendors, as well as the interpretation of the
     However, \small{EDIF} is not completely tool-independent. It specifies a
     meta-format, but the hardware components that can be used vary between
     various tool and hardware vendors, as well as the interpretation of the

-    \small{EDIF} standard. \todo{Is this still true? Reference:
-    http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/80000/74534/p803-li.pdf?key1=74534\&key2=8370537521\&coll=GUIDE\&dl=GUIDE\&CFID=61207158\&CFTOKEN=61908473}
+    \small{EDIF} standard. \cite[li89]

    
     This means that when working with \small{EDIF}, our prototype would become
     technology dependent (\eg only work with \small{FPGA}s of a specific
    
     This means that when working with \small{EDIF}, our prototype would become
     technology dependent (\eg only work with \small{FPGA}s of a specific