Bluetooth

The PS3 contains two wireless technologies, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g and Bluetooth 2.0. It is not possible for both to be used at the same time, so the PS3 alternates between Wi-Fi and Bluetooth communication at a very fast frequency using time division multiplexing. Both wireless capabilities are powered by the Marvell 88W8580 chip. In models CECHL and later, this wireless module became part of the motherboard, and is no longer on a separate daughterboard.

Hardware

IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network and BlueTooth 2.0 EDR controller chip: Marvell 88W8580. See: Wifi

The Bluetooth in the PS3 supports a maximum of eight devices concurrently. With the PS3 console using up one master slot, it leaves seven empty slots for connecting with Bluetooth devices (like Sixaxis and Dualshock3 controllers). The Bluetooth is version 2.0 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate), supporting a maximum of 2.1 megabits per second data transfer rate. The Bluetooth controller contains 1MB of NOR flash memory using a Spansion chip and another 1MB of NOR flash memory using a SST chip.

Type	Size	Speed	Voltage	Packaging	Manufacturer	Serialnumber	Description
NOR Flash	1MB	-	3.3V	-	Spansion	S99AL008D002	PS3 Bluetooth flash chip
NOR Flash	1MB	70ns	3V	-	SST	SST39VF800A-70-4I-M1QE	PS3 Bluetooth flash chip

Firmware

Bluetooth Firmware is maintained in the firmware file: update_files.tar > BLUETOOTH_FIRMWARE.pkg > content ; info0 ; info1

headers of resulting file (990KB or 1.013.760 bytes) contains strings of .dfu and signed dfu :

Example from FW 1.10

BLUETOOTH_FIRMWARE.rar (215.67 KB)

Header:

Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F

00000000  43 53 52 2D 64 66 75 32 02 00 A4 EC 06 00 C8 03  CSR-dfu2..¤ì..È.
00000010  73 69 67 6E 65 64 20 64 66 75 20 20 20 20 20 20  signed dfu      
00000020  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20                  
00000030  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20                  
00000040  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20                  
00000050  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
00000060  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
00000070  AA 3C 00 00 00 00 00 00 A8 E7 06 00 00 00 00 00  ª<......¨ç......
00000080  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................

Tail:

Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F

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0006ECB0  1C 85 12 CB 56 45 52 53 49 4F 4E 3D 30 45 31 38  .….ËVERSION=0E18