Category 7:

Electronics, computers, and information technology including information security

7A

Electronics

7A001

High-power microwave devices including tubes, travelling wave tubes (TWT) and phase shifters, and continuous wave and pulsed high power microwave travelling wave tube amplifiers (TWTA) operating at frequencies higher than 31 GHz, and their power supplies.

7A002

Microwave monolithic integrated circuits (MMIC) operating at frequencies above 3 GHz and surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices operating at frequencies above 2.5 GHz.

7A003

Phased array antennas and their elements

7A004

Radiation-hardened microprocessors, field programmable gate arrays and solid state memory devices

7A005

“Microprocessor microcircuits”, “microcomputer microcircuits”, microcontroller microcircuits, storage integrated circuits manufactured from a compound semiconductor, analogue-to-digital converters, digital-to-analogue converters, electro-optical or “optical integrated circuits” designed for “signal processing”, field programmable logic devices, neural network integrated circuits, custom integrated circuits for which either the function is unknown or the control status of the equipment in which the integrated circuit will be used is unknown, Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) processors, electrical erasable programmable read-only memories (EEPROMs), flash memories or static random-access memories (SRAMs), having any of the following:

a.

Rated for operation at an ambient temperature above 398 K (+125°C);

b.

Rated for operation at an ambient temperature below 218 K (-55°C); or

c. 

Rated for operation over the entire ambient temperature range from 218 K (-55°C) to 398 K (+125°C).

7A006

Radiation-hardened analogue-to-digital and digital-to-analogue converter integrated circuits, as follows:

a.

Analogue-to-digital converters having any of the following:

1.

A resolution of 8 bit or more, but less than 12 bit, with a total conversion time of less than 5 ns;

2.

A resolution of 12 bit with a total conversion time of less than 200 ns; or

3.

A resolution of more than 12 bit with a total conversion time of less than 2 µs;

b.

Digital-to-analogue converters with a resolution of 12 bit or more, and a “settling time” of less than 10 ns.

7A007

Detector units operating in the thermal infrared, ultraviolet, x-ray and gamma ray spectrum.

7A008

Focal plane assemblies for imaging cameras operating in the visible, near and thermal infrared spectrum

7B

Electronic test equipment

7B001

Frequency synthesized signal generators with maximum frequency greater than 31 GHz

7B002

Network analysers operating at frequencies above 40 GHz

7C

Computers

7C001

Digital computers and software as follows:

a

Digital computers having a composite theoretical performance (CTP) exceeding 75000 (seventy-five thousand) million theoretical operations per second (Mtops)

b.

Software, and/or computer inter-connection schemes, whether or not co-supplied with (a) designed to ‘parallelise’ digital computers (individually of any CTP rating) enabling a CTP of more than 75000 Mtops to be achieved by the ‘parallelised’ configuration”

1.

Technical notes: The Composite Theoretical Performance (CTP) rating is to be calculated in accordance with the calculation scheme separately notified in this regard.

2.

Individual digital computers each with a CTP rating of 75000 Mtops or less do not require an export license to any destination or end-user, unless supplied with (b) above.

3.

“Digital Computers’ includes (1) hybrid computers incorporating ‘digital computers’ or specified in (a) above, systolic array computers, neural computers, optical computers, vector processors, digital signal processors, logical processors (2) digital electronic equipment designed for ‘image enhancement’ or signal processing other than when supplied as integral adjuncts to medical imaging (eg CAT-scanning) equipment.

7C002

Specially designed software, and/or related specially designed analogue or hybrid computers, digital differential analysers for modelling, simulation, or design integration of rocket systems, unmanned aerial vehicles and cruise missiles.

7D

Information technology including information security

7D001

Data processing security equipment, data security equipment and transmission and signalling line security equipment, using ciphering processes.

7D002

Identification, authentication and keyloader equipment and key management, manufacturing and distribution equipment.

7E

[Reserved]