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

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

What This Book Is About

This book will not teach you to become proficient in using electronic design automation (EDA) tools or software to produce or re-produce PCBs from schematic entry to gerber design files. It is not even intended to give you a formal study on PCB structural design and fabrication. There are many books out there that already addressed these topics and by authors who are certainly more knowledgeable and the authority in these fields.

That said, this book does impart knowledge on PCBs that relate to the subject of reverse engineering, as a basic understanding of any PCB you intend to reverse engineer is essential to your success. Also, I will be using Microsoft® Visio albeit in a generic manner to demonstrate the steps involved. You will learn to systematically assess the PCB candidates, gather the necessary information relating to its components, create the layout diagram and parts list for reference, and use relevant strategies to find interconnections to re-create the schematic diagram, as well as other essential and useful stuff.

Free resources are made available to buyers of my book. You can email me at: ngkt@engineer.com with proof of purchase to receive them. Buyers who leave reviews on Amazon will receive additional bonuses too!
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