To My Readers



If this is the first time you're visiting my blog, thank you. Whether you're interested or just curious to find out about PCB reverse engineering (PCB-RE), I hope you'll find something useful here.

This blog contains many snippets of the content in my books to provide a more detailed overall sampling for my would-be readers to be better informed before making the purchase. Of course, the book contains more photos and nice illustrations, as evidence from its cover page. Hopefully, this online trailer version will whet your appetite enough to want to get a copy for yourself.

Top Review

I started doing component level repair of electronics with (and without) schematics more than 40 years ago, which activity often involves reverse-engineering of printed circuit boards. Although over the years my technical interests have shifted into particle beam instrumentation, electron microscopy, and focused ion beam technology fields, till this day——and more often than not——PCB repairs have returned multiple multi-million-dollar accelerators, FIB, and SEM instruments back to operation, delivering great satisfaction and some profit.

Many of the methods described by Keng Tiong in great details are similar to the approaches I've developed, but some of the techniques are different, and as effective and useful as efficient and practical. Systematic approach and collection of useful information presented in his books are not only invaluable for a novice approaching PCB-level reverse engineering, but also very interesting reading and hands-on reference for professionals.

Focus on reverse engineering instead of original design provides unique perspective into workings of electronics, and in my opinion books by Keng Tiong (I've got all three of them) are must-read for anybody trying to develop good understanding of electronics——together with writings by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill, Phil Hobbs, Jim Williams, Bob Pease, Howard Johnson and Martin Graham, Sam Goldwasser, and other world's top electronics experts.

Valery Ray
Particle Beam Systems Technologist

Monday, February 20, 2017

Rewards for Review!

Since publishing my book in 2015, I have received a number of good reviews from international readers on Amazon in the US (.com), UK (.co.uk) and Europe (.de). To encourage more readers to give their reviews, I am offering the following bonuses as rewards:


These through-hole Visio layout symbols include DIP-300, DIP-400, DIP-600, PGAs and ZIPs with their corresponding sockets, making up more than 200 in total.


These PLCC Visio layout symbols include most of the common through-hole and SMD configuration available.


These SMD discrete Visio layout symbols include resistors, capacitors, inductors, and common diodes and transistor packages.


This Visio Power Supply layout diagram is featured on page 116 of Chapter 3 and is a very useful example for learning how to render mechanical illustration of modules.

So if you have already bought the book but have yet to write a review on Amazon, kindly do so and email me to have these bonuses delivered to you!
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