Switch boards

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Description

The Switch board is a daughterboard where are located the input switches, and some leds for outputs and fireworks

  • Switch board components
    • Switches: Power and Eject buttons
    • Green and Red leds, all switch board models have them, are needed to show the standby/poweron modes neither the infamous YLOD
    • Eject led, this is the only led not controlled by syscon, the line goes to the bluray drive, so is the bluray drive who decides when is lighted on
    • White backlight leds, this was added for PS3 slim models with the new design of the buttons (not touch sensitive)
    • Unknown subcircuit leds, this seems some kind of experiment that escaped the prototyping table and entered retail production, for some reason exists in some retail PS3 but seems deactivated and partially unpopulated


  • Switch board circuit overview (based on how HSW-001 works, this could be different for other switch board models)
    • When Power or Eject switches are pressed the correlating syscon pins are pulled down (grounded)
    • All LED's have its own resistor with a different value to control the current (thus light intensity) and one or more diodes to protect the circuit
    • The LED's on the switch board are turned on either by syscon (all them except one) or by the BD drive controller (only the eject blue led) by using an intermediary transistor
    • That transistors connects the LED ground pin to ground when the signal to turn them on is sent by syscon or by the BD drive controller (the other pin of the LED is connected permanently to the 5 volts standby line)

Comparison of functionality

PS3 retail switch boards
PS3 Switch board Switches Leds
PS3 Model Motherboard Model Part number Connector Power Eject Standby/PowerOn/YLOD Eject Switches Backlight Board Contour Backlight (factory disabled)
CECHAxx
CECHBxx
COK-001 CSW-001 1-871-871-21 10 pins Touch sensitive Touch sensitive 1x red (2 pins)
1x green (2 pins)
1x blue No No
CECHCxx
CECHExx
COK-002
CECHGxx SEM-001 Integrated on motherboard Touch sensitive Touch sensitive 1x red (2 pins) ?
1x green (2 pins) ?
1x blue No No
CECHHxx DIA-001
CECHJxx
CECHKxx
DIA-002
CECHLxx
CECHMxx
CECHPxx
CECHQxx
VER-001
CECH-20xx DYN-001 DSW-001 1-880-056-11 10 pins Pressure Pressure 1x red/green (dual, 4 pins) 1x blue 2x white (power)
2x white (eject)
1x red (left-top). 1x blue (right-top)
1x blue (left-bottom). 1x unpopulated (right-bottom)
CECH-21xx SUR-001 HSW-001 1-881-946-11
1-881-946-21
10 pins Pressure Pressure 1x red/green (dual, 4 pins) 1x blue 2x white (power)
2x white (eject)
1x red (left-top). 1x unpopulated (right-top)
1x blue (left-bottom). 1x unpopulated (right-bottom)
CECH-25xx JTP-001
JSD-001
CECH-30xx KTE-001 KSW-001 1-884-751-31 6 pins Pressure Pressure 1x red/green (dual, 4 pins) No No No
SuperSlim MSX-001
MPX-001
NPX-001 ?
PPX-001 ?
PQX-001 ?
RTX-001 ?
MSW-001 1-886-929-11 6 pins Pressure No 1x red/green (dual, 4 pins) No No No
  • Notes
    • Boardmodel naming seems thus first letter of SKU motherboard (C=COK, D=DYN, K=KTE, M=MSX/MPX) + "SW-001" (with the exception of HSW-001)

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Switch boards Pinout comparison

CSW-001

Switch board CSW-001 (PCB top view)

For more detailed info about this board see: CSW-001 page

CSW-001 Pinout
Pin Name Connected to Description
On Motherboard On Switch board
1 GND GND GND Ground
2 SW_PWM Syscon pad N9 Testpad ? FREQ. Intended to send a PWM signal to the switch board ?
3 RMC_IN Syscon pad R10
Service Connector (CN4009) pin 17
Testpad ?. NC ReMote Control INput
The IR receiver component is missing in the Switch board but existed in some PS3 prototypes that was using SIRC protocol and SERV_SIRCS
4 POW_SW Syscon pad B12 Power Switch PS3 power button
5 EJECT_SW Syscon pad A12 Eject Switch PS3 eject button
6 POW_LED Syscon pad M7 Green led
7 STBY_LED Syscon pad N7 Red led
8 BD_LED BluRay connector (CN3221) pin 50 Blue led
9 GND GND GND Ground
10 +5V_EVER Power Supply connector (CN6005) pins 4 and 5 VCC 5V Standby

DSW-001

Switch board DSW-001 (PCB top view)

For more detailed info about this board see: DSW-001 page

  • Part number: 1-880-056-11
  • Compatible with PS3 models:
DSW-001 Pinout
Pin Name Connected to Description
On Motherboard On Switch board
1 RMC_IN ? Syscon SW2-30x, pin 13 Testpad Only This line have a Testpad @ switchboard, seems that it is a service pin.
Also connected to a pin of a Service Connectors ?
2 SW_PWM ? Syscon SW2-30x, pin 12 4x CONTOUR LEDs Permanently inactive by default.
On Switch board is connected to a transistor driving 3 LEDs: TWO BLUE AND ONE RED.
3 ? Syscon SW2-30x, pin 11 2x White leds - Inner LEDs for EJECT button backlight
2x White leds - Inner LEDs for POWER button backlight
4 POW_SW Syscon SW2-30x, pin 110 Power switch PS3 power button Sink to ground to activate.
5 EJECT_SW Syscon SW2-30x, pin 111 Eject switch PS3 eject button Sink to ground to activate.
6 POW_LED Syscon SW2-30x, pin 5 Green led Connects to bottom-left corner pin (green gnd) of dual red/green LED over power switch.
7 STBY_LED Syscon SW2-30x, pin 6 Red led Connects to top-left corner pin (red gnd) of dual red/green LED over power switch.
8 BD_LED BluRay Connector, pin 13 Blue led Connects to blue LED over eject switch.
9 GND GND GND Ground
10 +5V_EVER Power Supply Connector (CN101), pin 1 VCC 5V Standby
  • above top panel view port behind pcb. resistors was not tested.

HSW-001

Switch board HSW-001 (PCB top view)

For more detailed info about this board see: HSW-001 page

HSW-001 Pinout
Pin Name Connected to Description
On Motherboard On Switch board
1 SW_PWM ? Syscon SW2-30x, pin 12 4x CONTOUR LEDs, transistor base pin The transistor is located in the switch board and drives 2 LEDs with currentlimitor resistors of 3K Ω (red led at left-top) and 820 Ω (blue led at left-bottom)
The circuit has unpopulated pads to add another transistor and another 2 LEDs for a total of 4 LEDs driven by a misterious syscon pin
2 +5V_EVER Power Supply Connector (CN101), pin 1 VCC 5V Standby line from power supply connector CN101, the pin named 5V_EVER on motherboard and 5VSB on power supply
3 ? Syscon SW2-30x, pin 11 2x White leds - Inner LEDs for EJECT button backlight, with a currentlimitor resistor of 910 Ω
2x White leds - Inner LEDs for POWER button backlight, with a currentlimitor resistor of 1K Ω
4 GND GND GND Ground
5 EJECT_SW Syscon SW2-30x, pin 111 Eject switch PS3 eject button Sink to ground to activate
6 POW_SW Syscon SW2-30x, pin 110 Power switch PS3 power button Sink to ground to activate
7 POW_LED Syscon SW2-30x, pin 5 Green led - Connects to left-bottom corner pin (green gnd) of dual red/green LED located next to the power switch, with a currentlimitor resistor of 1K Ω
8 STBY_LED Syscon SW2-30x, pin 6 Red led - Connects to left-top corner pin (red gnd) of dual red/green LED located next to the power switch, with a currentlimitor resistor of 1K2 Ω
9 BD_LED BluRay controller CXD5131R-1, pin 36 (on SUR-001/JSD-001)
or
BluRay controller R8J32830FPV1, pin ?? (on JTP-001)
Blue led - Connects to blue LED located next to the eject switch, with a currentlimitor resistor of 560 Ω
10 GND GND GND Ground

KSW-001

Switch board KSW-001 (PCB top view)

For more detailed info about this board see: KSW-001 page

  • Part number: 1-884-751-31
  • Compatible with PS3 models:
KSW-001 Pinout
Pin Name Connected to Description
On Motherboard On Switch board
1 EJECT_SW Syscon SW3-30x, pin 83 ? Eject switch PS3 eject button Sink to ground to activate
2 +5V_EVER VCC VCC 5V Standby
3 POW_SW Syscon SW3-30x, pin 81 ? Power switch PS3 power button Sink to ground to activate
4 STBY_LED Syscon SW3-30x, pin ? Red led Connects to right-top corner pin (red gnd) of dual red/green LED over power switch,
5 POW_LED Syscon SW3-30x, pin ? Green led Connects to top right corner pin (green gnd) of dual red/green LED over power switch,
6 GND GND GND Ground
  • above top panel view port behind pcb. resistors was not tested.

MSW-001

Switch board MSW-001 (PCB top view)

For more detailed info about this board see: MSW-001 page

  • Part number: 1-886-929-11
  • Compatible with PS3 models:
    • ?
MSW-001 Pinout
Pin Name Connected to Description
On Motherboard On Switch board
1 ? ? GND
2 ? ? GND
3 ? ? POW_SW
4 ? ? POW_LED
5 ? ? VCC
6 ? ? STBY_LED



Modding

Contour backlight in PS3 2000 Series boards

PS3 2000 series (CECH-20xx, CECH-21xx, and CECH-25xx, with Switch boards DSW-001 and HSW-001) has been designed to have a lighted line all around the top edge of the Switch board

Light rays bouncing surfaces, and light reactive materials

Switch board PS3 2000 series
Light rays schematic in contour leds

The plastic plate uses a "light reactive" material along the edge and in a squared hole in the corner allows the light to "transpass" it

The ligth rays "bounces" inside this material, and the first bouncing surface over the squared hole is a plane at 45 degrees angle. This first bounce aligns the light rays in paralell to the board, the next bounces happens all along the curved surface in horizontal

The reflection of this surfaces can be increased a bit with chrome stickers (or alluminium tape). The case has a plane border of 3,5mm x 17,7cm perfect to stick in it, this way the glue layer of the sticker is at the other side, but the case doesnt have the 45 degrees surface (it has a weird hole instead), you can use other colors for the sticker/s because the color is partially visible from outside (preferably lighter colors or one that matches your led/s color to enhance it)







HSW-001

See HSW-001

DSW-001 Contour backlight

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