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CONCLUSION AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

We have presented an embedded object based architecture and the ideology of fitting this architecture
into the common object-oriented methods used in software development. We have applied it with
combined software and hardware entities called Atomi-objects and evaluated the pros and cons of such
an architecture and design method. The method has also been tested in some devices. This study serves
as a basis for further research on high-level development of embedded systems. Some further research
will be made towards that goal: to make the Atomi method most feasible, the most common and
general Atomi objects should be readily available. The methods for mapping existing design methods
to the Atomi architecture will be studied.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work is supported by the Finnish Academy and InfoTech.

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