This volume contains the proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems (SCOPES 2004) held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on September 2 and 3, 2004. Initially, the workshop was referred to as the International Workshop on Code Generation for Embedded Systems. The first took place in 1994 in Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany. From its beginnings, the intention of the organizers has been to create an interactive atmosphere in which the participants can discuss and profit from the assembly of international experts in the field.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems, SCOPES 2004, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in September 2004.

The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from close to 50 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on application synthesis, data flow analysis, data partitioning, task scheduling, and code generation.