Inventory of all of the ICs in the Playstation

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· 4 years ago

 
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Last modified 08/13/97 
Special thanks go out to Dan Boris and Jim Shaw the information they've given 
me. 
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Today at work I took apart a Playstation and made an inventory of all of the 
IC's in it.  I don't know if this is of any use, but anyway, here it is. 

Maxon   08/11/97 
gpw0341@omega.uta.edu 

Mfg'd by : Sony 
Markings : CXD8561BQ 
Package  : 208 pins. 
Purpose  : either the CPU or GPU.  don't know yet.  need to research. 
Notes    : This is probably an LSI/SGI/MIPS chip Sony has remarked. 

Mfg'd by : Sony 
Markings : CXD8606Q 
           L9B0057 
           WJ92537 
           NNI 9722 
Package  : 208 pins. 
Purpose  : either the CPU or GPU.  again, I need to research it. 
Notes    : This is probably an LSI/SGI/MIPS chip Sony has remarked. 

Mfg'd by : NEC 
Markings : 424805AL-A60 
           9718NV065 
Package  : 28 pins. 
Purpose  : 512x8 fast page 60ns DRAM.  this is the psx main RAM. 
Notes    : There are four of these in the psx.  Thanks to Jim Shaw for 
           verifying my hunch that these are 60ns memory used in psx. 

Mfg'd by : NEC 
Markings : D4818QGF-A12 
           -S 
           9712L9525 
Package  : 100 pins. 
Purpose  : 12ns RAM.  Probably the video memory. 
Notes    : Thanks to Jim Shaw for verifying that this is 12ns RAM. 

Mfg'd by : Sony 
Markings : 2030 
Package  : 32 pin DIP. 
Purpose  : the ROM?  it looked like a ROM chip to me. 

Mfg'd by : Sony 
Markings : CXD2925Q 
           721R16F 
Package  : 100 pins. 
Purpose  : ? 

Mfg'd by : Sony 
Markings : CXD2545Q 
           HW71963X 
Package  : 100 pins. 
Purpose  : ? 

Mfg'd by : Sony 
Markings : CXD1815Q 
           722P48E 
Package  : 100 pins. 
Purpose  : ? 

Mfg'd by : Motorola 
Markings : MC141658FT 
           JBC97201 
Package  : 64 pins. 
Purpose  : This could be a peripheral driver array. 
Nots     : Thanks to Jim Shaw for the hint on this chip. 

Mfg'd by : AKM 
Markings : AK4309AVM 
           1A719N 
Package  : 24 pin DIP. 
Purpose  : 16bit stereo delta sigma DAC for Multimedia (part of the SPU) 
Notes    : Thanks to Jim Shaw for giving me the info on this chip. 

Mfg'd by : SEC 
Markings : SEC Korea 719 
           KM62V256CLT6E-10L 
           PWD024XD 
Package  : 22 pin DIP. 
Purpose  : ? 

Mfg'd by : Fujitsu 
Markings : 814260-70 
           9720 F42 
           PJ 
Purpose  : 256Kx16 Fast Page DRAM 70ns.  this is the SPU's memory. 
Notes    : Thanks to Dan Boris for setting me straight on this chip. 

The following IC's were located on the underside of the main PCB. 

Mfg'd by : Sony 
Markings : CXA1645M 
           722K00V 
Purpose  : RGB Encoder-RGB analog to composite. 
Notes    : Thanks to Jim Shaw for setting straight on this one. 

Mfg'd by : ? 
Markings : BA6392FP 
           723 121 
Purpose  : probably a something not very important. 

Mfg'd by : ? 
Markings : C2030 
           SC430930PB 
           SSA19721A 
Purpose : probably something not very important.