From 88ec40778e4a2ad85de5ed71b7e770fbea6b10e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthijs Kooijman Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 19:55:58 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add (a start of) an introduction). --- Chapters/Introduction.tex | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Chapters/Introduction.tex diff --git a/Chapters/Introduction.tex b/Chapters/Introduction.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ebbd931 --- /dev/null +++ b/Chapters/Introduction.tex @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +\chapter{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 +compilers, and present the compiler that will connect these worlds and +sets a first step towards making hardware programming on the whole +easier, more maintainable and generally more pleasant. + +In the first chapter, we will sketch the context for this research. +The current state and history of hardware description languages will be +briefly discussed, as well as the state and history of functional +programming. Since we're not the first to have merged these approaches, +a number of other functional hardware description languages are briefly +described. -- 2.30.2