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The goal of this document is to ensure that the design of a FINREAD card reader is capable of meeting the requirements identified in the document before. Futher to this, to give the system a maintainable and flexible structure that can easily incorporate changes in the demands and the necessary scalability to support a wide range of applications. This document is mainly based upon four main topics: a short introduction into the field of architecture for IT devices; the physical architecture, which is more based on the different intrefaces and hardware components and the way they are connected ; the functional architecture, which mostly leads to a specific software architecture; and also to a specific information architecture and the necessary data structures that need to be defined as part of an interoperable system design.