Division 3E Technology

"Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "development" or "production" of equipment or materials specified in 3A, 3B or 3C;

Note 1: 3E001 does not control "technology" for equipment or components specified in 3A003.

Note 2: 3E001 does not control "technology" for integrated circuits specified in 3A001.a.3. to 3A001.a.12., having all of the following:

1. a..

   Using "technology" at or above 0,13 μm; and

2. b..

   Incorporating multi-layer structures with three or fewer metal layers.

Note 3: 3E001 does not control ‘Process Design Kits’ (‘PDKs’) unless they include libraries implementing functions or technologies for items specified in 3A001.

Technical Note:

A ‘Process Design Kit’ (‘PDK’) is a software tool provided by a semiconductor manufacturer to ensure that the required design practices and rules are taken into account in order to successfully produce a specific integrated circuit design in a specific semiconductor process, in accordance with technological and manufacturing constraints (each semiconductor manufacturing process has its particular ‘PDK’).

"Technology" according to the General Technology Note, other than that specified in 3E001, for the "development" or "production" of a "microprocessor microcircuit", "microcomputer microcircuit" or microcontroller microcircuit core, having an arithmetic logic unit with an access width of 32 bits or more and any of the following features or characteristics:

1. a..

   A ‘vector processor unit’ designed to perform more than two calculations on floating-point vectors (one-dimensional arrays of 32-bit or larger numbers) simultaneously;

   Technical Note:

   A ‘vector processor unit’ is a processor element with built-in instructions that perform multiple calculations on floating-point vectors (one-dimensional arrays of 32-bit or larger numbers) simultaneously, having at least one vector arithmetic logic unit and vector registers of at least 32 elements each.

2. b..

   Designed to perform more than four 64-bit or larger floating-point operation results per cycle; or

3. c..

   Designed to perform more than eight 16-bit fixed-point multiply-accumulate results per cycle (e.g., digital manipulation of analogue information that has been previously converted into digital form, also known as digital "signal processing").

Note 1: 3E002 does not control "technology" for multimedia extensions.

Note 2: 3E002 does not control "technology" for micro-processor cores, having all of the following:

1. a..

   Using "technology" at or above 0,13 μm; and

2. b..

   Incorporating multi-layer structures with five or fewer metal layers.

Note 3: 3E002 includes "technology" for the "development" or "production" of digital signal processors and digital array processors.

Other "technology" for the "development" or "production" of the following:

1. a..

   Vacuum microelectronic devices;

2. 3E003b..

   Hetero-structure semiconductor electronic devices such as high electron mobility transistors (HEMT), hetero-bipolar transistors (HBT), quantum well and super lattice devices;

   Note: 3E003.b. does not control "technology" for high electron mobility transistors (HEMT) operating at frequencies lower than 31,8 GHz and hetero-junction bipolar transistors (HBT) operating at frequencies lower than 31,8 GHz.

3. c..

   "Superconductive" electronic devices;

4. d..

   Substrates of films of diamond for electronic components.

5. e..

   Substrates of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) for integrated circuits in which the insulator is silicon dioxide;

6. f..

   Substrates of silicon carbide for electronic components;

7. g..

   "Vacuum electronic devices" operating at frequencies of 31,8 GHz or higher.

"Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "use" of equipment or "software" specified in 3A001.a.1. or 2., 3A101, 3A102 or 3D101.

"Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "development" of "software" specified in 3D101.

"Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "use" of equipment specified in 3A001.e.2., 3A001.e.3., 3A001.g., 3A201, 3A225 to 3A234.

"Technology", in the form of codes or keys, to enhance or release the performance of frequency changers or generators to meet the characteristics of 3A225.