From 054bea2cd83ef09474e7ccad49d350d5a708f208 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Schoeberl
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 13:36:17 +0200
Subject: Another try of a smoother intro what Chisel is

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 # Chisel3
-Chisel3 is a new Firrtl based chisel.
-It is currently in BETA VERSION, so some Chisel features may change in the coming months.
+
+Chisel is a new hardware construction language to support adavanced hardware design and circuit generation.
+The latest version of [Chisel](https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/) is Chisel3,
+which uses Firrtl as an intermediate hardware representation language.
+
+Chisel3 is currently in BETA VERSION, so some Chisel features may change in the coming months.
 
 Please visit the [Wiki](https://github.com/ucb-bar/chisel3/wiki) for a more
 detailed description.
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