Several code-generation domains use dataflow semantics [Pin92][Mur93]. These domains are capable of synthesis of C code, assembly code for certain programmable DSPs [Won92], VHDL, and Silage [Kal93]. A significant part of the research that led to the development of these domains has been concerned with synthesizing code that is efficient enough for embedded systems [Bha93a,b,c][Bha94a,b][Buc93b,c]. A large amount of effort has also been put into the automatic parallelization of the code [Ha91][Ha92][Sih93a,b], and on parallel architectures that take advantage of it [Lee91b][Sri93].

A generalization of dataflow, called Kahn process networks [Kah74], has been realized by Tom Parks in the PN domain [Par95].