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Component-based development has proved to be a promising approach for reusability and manag-ing complexity, but to date has not been extensively used for handling the requirements from embedded systems domain (real-time constraints, resource limitation etc). It is based on component models i.e. specification of components and their interaction. Most of the existing component models tailored for embedded systems only cover a small set of the embedded systems ’ requirements. This paper is a licen-tiate proposal that glances through the work that has been done on building a resource-aware component model for embedded systems. In this work we have proposed a two-layered component model- ProCom for design and development of embedded systems and a modeling framework- REMES for modeling and reasoning of components ’ and systems ’ behavior that includes relevant resource types for embedded systems.