https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GA144
As for your original question: you might want to have a look at languages that overlap the border between 'traditional' PLs, and hardware description languages. Or hardware/software co-design, and tools used in that field. Edit: also see Oberon.
> The only example I know of is the one that runs Java bytecode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle
Probably implemented in billions of ARM cores out there. Unsure how much use it sees though.