Teardown of Edision Picco T265 DVB-T2 receiver

2021-04

As always, I had nothing interesting to do, so, I decided to mess around my DVB-T2 receiver (Edision Picco T265).

It has the following ports:

• 1x USB
• 1x IR (jack)
• 1x Antenna input
• 1x S/PDIF
• 1x HDMI
• 1x SCART
• 1x Power input (5V)

And it handles DVB-T2 with H.265/HVEC decoding.
Also, there are many other features like wifi support but I didn't test/use.
After removing the cover, we have this board:



Like any modern embedded system, we see quite a few interesting things:
In red, we see a FudaHisi FD650B-S LED driver.
In orange, we see a Winbond W25Q32JV 32 Mbit flash memory.
In blue, we see an SoC that I couldn't identify (needs proper equipment to apply heat on the heat sink and then, 'unglue' it from the SoC safely).
In black, we have 2 different connectors, I guess one of them is probably a serial connection and the other, I still don't know.
While it is not marked because we can clearly see between the orange and the black, there is an AMS 1117 linear voltage regulator.
Returning to the SoC, in general, it's either a MIPS processor or an ARM processor plus some ASIC for hardware acceleration on H.265/HVEC.
More importantly, it's easily hackable :)
In future, I might mod it by replacing the SCART port by a Composite Video.