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Re:The scientific objectives and payloads of Chang’E4 missi... by codezero on Friday January 04, 2019 @06:55PM (#18828898)
That's really interesting, it hadn't occurred to me that an FPGA would ever fall under ITAR, then again, after quickly scanning Wikipedia, I didn't even realize things like night vision fall under that too, but I guess it makes sense.
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Re:The scientific objectives and payloads of Chang’E4 missi... by hatsunearu on Saturday January 05, 2019 @01:27AM (#18830323)
Yeah, a lot of devices that are powerful enough (subject to fudging) that are uncommitted but can be committed to Bad Stuff seems to be ITAR regulated. Another thing that might be the trigger is processors with real time capabilities.

I was surprised to see that the Beaglebone (with its very powerful PRU) was ITAR regulated, but the Raspberry Pi (not a lot of real time stuff) wasn't.

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Re:The scientific objectives and payloads of Chang’E4 missi... by reindeerer on Saturday January 05, 2019 @01:30AM (#18830328)
AM335x PRUs are exactly the reason why its under ITAR. Hard-realtime running alongside general-purpose OS
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