<s>
Flow	B-Language
to	I-Language
HDL	I-Language
tools	O
and	O
methods	O
convert	O
flow-based	O
system	O
design	O
into	O
a	O
hardware	O
description	O
language	O
(	O
HDL	O
)	O
such	O
as	O
VHDL	B-Language
or	O
Verilog	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Typically	O
this	O
is	O
a	O
method	O
of	O
creating	O
designs	O
for	O
field-programmable	B-Architecture
gate	I-Architecture
array	I-Architecture
,	O
application-specific	O
integrated	O
circuit	O
prototyping	O
and	O
digital	B-General_Concept
signal	I-General_Concept
processing	I-General_Concept
(	O
DSP	O
)	O
design	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Flow-based	O
system	O
design	O
is	O
well-suited	O
to	O
field-programmable	B-Architecture
gate	I-Architecture
array	I-Architecture
design	O
as	O
it	O
is	O
easier	O
to	O
specify	O
the	O
innate	O
parallelism	O
of	O
the	O
architecture	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Unified	B-Language
Modeling	I-Language
Language	I-Language
is	O
the	O
most	O
widely	O
used	O
example	O
for	O
software	O
design	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
C	B-Application
to	I-Application
HDL	I-Application
tools	O
and	O
flow	O
have	O
a	O
similar	O
aim	O
,	O
but	O
with	O
C	B-Language
or	O
C-like	O
programming	O
languages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
System-on-a-chip	B-Architecture
design	O
can	O
also	O
be	O
done	O
using	O
this	O
flow	O
.	O
</s>
