Playstation 2 technical resources, where to find

[PiNkY]

I am in need for technical details about playstation 2 for a university seminar. All i found where some marketing pdfs from sony/rambus, some gdc stuff and the ars technica article. Is there any "in depth" info about its system architecture available on the net? I have heard the 3rd edition of hennessy & patterson : computer architecture... has something on the EE, but i have no access to this book (not available at library). Also there is a C'T article, but it also is rather short. Are there any Dev. resources publicly available (programming manual, etc.) ? Any help would be appreciated

Edit: also found some references in the various IEEE publications

 

[mech]

The arstechnica article wasn't enough?

There are some leaked EE and GS manuals floating around the web, that's about as hardcore as you're going to get I think.

 

[Tagrineth]

There's a pretty good article at FiringSquad on the PS2 architecture as a whole.

 

[_KD_]

Yeah, the Arstechnica article should have covered a great deal. I don't know of any technical black paper articles or anything, but I do have a few useful links that may help (More efficient ways to program for the PS2, etc). If you'd like them, just holla.

 

[PiNkY]

Well, some links to stuff regarding peripheral processors (spu,ipu, yet mainly gs) would be great, since all info on these seems particularly scarce