The primary sponsors of the Dataflow Interchange Format Project have been the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Management, Communications & Control, Inc.; and the Semiconductor Research Corporation.

We are also grateful to the following sponsors, who have supported the research in Maryland DSPCAD Research Group at large: Agilent Technologies, Angeles Design Systems, Inc.; the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; the Department of Defense Maryland Procurement Office; National Instruments; Northrop Grumman Corp.; the Semiconductor Research Corporation; Trident Systems, Inc.; the University of Maryland Graduate School; the US Army Research Laboratory; and the US National Science Foundation.