3ETechnology

3E Technology

3E001 “Technology” according to the General Technology Note for the “development” or “production” of equipment, materials or “software” specified by 3A, 3B, 3C or 3D201. to 3D203.;

Note 1: 3E001. does not apply to "technology" for equipment or components specified by 3A003.

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

a. Using "technology" at or above 0.130 µm; and

b. Incorporating multi‑layer structures with three or fewer metal layers.

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

 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’).

3E002 “Technology” according to the General Technology Note, other than that specified by 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:

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;

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.

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

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 apply to “technology” for multimedia extensions.

Note 2: 3E002. does not apply to “technology” for micro‑processor cores, having all of the following:

a. Using “technology” at or above 0.130 µm; and

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.