Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems : 8th International Workshop SCOPES 2004 Amsterdam The Netherlands September 2 3 2004. Proceedings 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