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-\chapter{Introduction}
+\chapter[chap:introduction]{Introduction}
 This thesis describes the result and process of my work during my
 Master's assignment. In these pages, I will try to introduce the world
 of hardware descriptions, the world of functional languages and
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     How can we describe the structural properties of a hardware design, using
     a functional language?
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   We can further split this into subquestions from a hardware perspective:
   \startitemize
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     \item How can we describe (hierarchical) structure in a design?
   \stopitemize
   
-  functional perspective:
+  And subquestions from a functional perspective:
   \startitemize
     \item How to interpret recursion in descriptions?
     \item How to interpret polymorphism?
     \item How to interpret higher order in descriptions?
   \stopitemize
 
+  In addition to looking at designing a hardware description language, we
+  will also implement a prototype to test drive our ideas. This prototype will
+  translate hardware descriptions written in the Haskell functional language
+  to simple (netlist-like) hardware descriptions in the \VHDL language. The
+  reasons for choosing these languages are detailed in section
+  \in{}[sec:prototype:input] and \in{}[sec:prototype:output] respectively.
+
 \section{Outline}
 
 In the first chapter, we will sketch the context for this research.