this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th international workshop on software and compilers for embedded systems, scopes 2003, held in vienna, austria in september 2003. the 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. the papers are organized in topical sections on code size reduction, code selection, loop optimizations, automatic retargeting, system design, register allocation, offset assignment, analysis and profiling, and memory and cache optimzations.