Playstation Specification

CPU

• R3000A
• 32 bit RISC processor
• Clock- 33.8688MHz
• Operating performance - 30 MIPS
• Instruction Cache - 4 KB
• Data Cache - 1 KB
• BUS - 132 MB/sec.

CD ROM DRIVE

• Data Transfer Rate (DMA TO RAM)
  150 KB/sec. (Normal)
  300 KB/sec. (Double speed)
• Maximum Capacity - 660 Megabytes
• Features
  Audio CD play
  XA Interactive Audio

GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES

NTSC Display Resolution

MODE			Resolution (H x V)
(non-interlaced)
0 1 2 3 4			256x480 320x480 384x480 512x480 640x480
(non-interlaced)
5 6 7 8 9			256x480 320x480 384x480 512x480 640x480

Color Depth

MODE			COLORS
4 8 15 24			16 256 32,768 16,777,216

All calculations are performed to 24 bit accuracy
Texture mapping color mode

• 4 bit CLUT (16 Colors)
• 8 bit CLUT (256 Colors)
• 15 bit direct (32768 Colors)

2D GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES

Sprite display capability
Size:1X1 pixels to 256X256 pixels

SPRITE SIZE				BIT DEPTH
				4 bit	8 bit	16 bit
8X8 16X16				280K 110K	280K 70K	160K 40K

Rectangles per second

GEOMETRY ENGINE (GTE)

• Operating performance: 66 MIPS
• 3D polygon transformation:

Type	Per second
Flat shaded	1.5 M
Gouraud, textured and light sourced	500 K

GTE performs high speed matrix multiplies

DATA DECOMPRESSION ENGINE (MDEC)

• Operating performance - 80 MIPS
• Directly connected to CPU bus
• Motion JPEG-like Hardware Decompression Engine

HARDWARE RENDERED POLYGONS (GPU)

• Rendered in hardware
  Up to 360K polygon/sec.
• Texture mapping
• Flat or Gouraud shading

I/O SYSTEM OVERVIEW

• Control Pad
  Two control pad connectors
  Expandable with multitap connector
• Backup RAM
  Two removable cards
  128 KB Flash Memory
  OS support for File Save, Retrieve and Remove
• Serial Port I/O
  Link Cable Connectivity

MEMORY CONFIGURATION

• Main RAM: 2 Megabytes
• Video RAM: 1 Megabyte
• Sound RAM: 512 Kilobytes
• CD ROM buffer: 32 Kilobytes
• OS ROM: 512 Kilobytes

SOUND PROCESSOR

• 24 Channels
• 44.1KHz sample rate
• PCM audio source
• Digital effects include:
  Envelope
  Looping
  Digital Reverb
• Load up to 512K of sampled waveforms
  Supports MIDI Instruments

SPRITE AND BACKGROUND GRAPHICS

Virtually Unlimited:

• size (up to 256 x 256)
• number of sprites on a line
• number of sprite images
• number of CLUTs

SPRITE SPECIAL EFFECTS

• Rotation
• Scaling up/down
• Warping
• Transparency
• Fading
• Priority
• Vertical and horizontal line scroll