Everything about Dataflow programming

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Dataflow programmingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: TAPA: A Scalable Task-parallel Dataflow Programming Framework for Modern FPGAs with Co-optimization of HLS and Physical DesignInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Computer ArchitectureThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Advances in dataflow programming languagesCited 375 times
5. Go sideways: Stream processingA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: DataflowA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Advances in dataflow programming languages

  Wesley M. Johnston, J. R. Paul Hanna, Richard J. Millar · 2004 · ACM Computing Surveys · 375 citations

• Memory management for dataflow programming of multirate signal processing algorithms

  S.S. Bhattacharyya, E.A. Lee · 1994 · IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing · 24 citations

• Functional programming on a dataflow architecture: Applications in real-time image processing

  Jocelyn S�rot, Georges Qu�not, Bertrand Zavidovique · 1993 · Machine Vision and Applications · 18 citations

• High-level dataflow programming for real-time image processing on smart cameras

  Jocelyn Sérot, François Berry, Cédric Bourrasset · 2014 · Journal of Real-Time Image Processing · 11 citations

• Thread-based programming for the EM-4 hybrid dataflow machine

  Mitsuhisa Sato, Yuetsu Kodama, Shuichi Sakai · 1992 · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News · 9 citations

• Parallelism Reduction Based on Pattern Substitution in Dataflow Oriented Programming Languages

  Loïc Cudennec, Renaud Sirdey · 2012 · Procedia Computer Science · 9 citations

• APEIRON: A Framework for High Level Programming of Dataflow Applications on Multi-FPGA Systems

  Roberto Ammendola, Andrea Biagioni, Carlotta Chiarini · 2024 · EPJ Web of Conferences · 8 citations

• Ripple: Asynchronous Programming for Spatial Dataflow Architectures

  Souradip Ghosh, Yufei Shi, Brandon Lucia · 2025 · Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages · 6 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• TAPA: A Scalable Task-parallel Dataflow Programming Framework for Modern FPGAs with Co-optimization of HLS and Physical Design

  Licheng Guo, Yuze Chi, Jason Lau · 2023 · ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems · 43 citations

• Multi-GPU work sharing in a task-based dataflow programming model

  Joseph John, Josh Milthorpe, Thomas Herault · 2024 · Future Generation Computer Systems · 5 citations

• Statically Analyzing the Dataflow of R Programs

  Florian Sihler, Matthias Tichy · 2025 · Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages · 5 citations

• Data pre-processing with high-level-synthesis and dataflow programming using HLS C++ dataflow template library

  Thomas Janson, Udo Kebschull · 2023 · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment · 2 citations

• SynergyAI: A Human–AI Pair Programming Tool Based on Dataflow

  Le Jiang, Shingo Yamaguchi, Mohd Anuaruddin Bin Ahmadon · 2025 · Information · 2 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Computer ArchitectureJoseph D. Dumas II · 2005
• DataFlow Supercomputing EssentialsVeljko Milutinovic, Milos Kotlar · 2017
• Principles of compiler designAlfred V. Aho, Jeffrey D. Ullman · 1977
• Formal Aspects of Component SoftwareFarhad Arbab · 2012
• Concepts, techniques, and models of computer programmingPeter Van Roy, Seif Haridi · 2004
• Lucid, the dataflow programming languageWilliam W. Wadge · 1985
• 📕Dataflow computationAnton Pedro Willem Böhm · 1983
• 📕Performance analysis of a large-grain dataflow scheduling paradigmSteven D. Young · 1993

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