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, November 1, 2017

Latest News

The first draft of the book is finally completed, after a grilling six months of writing, drawing, liaising, collating and editing works. For a book of this magnitude in terms of field scopes and authorship, it is inevitable that challenges and setbacks abound every now and then. Thankfully, there are kind and like-minded people among the contributors to nudge me on, and given me the support when I needed it.

Now that I have the content sorted out and the book cover updated and improved, I've registered and gotten the ISBN number for publishing:


It won't hit the store just yet, until I get Michael Dunn to go through the proof copy and pen the Foreword. Moreover, ScanCAD International's fantastic staff will also be meticulously reviewing through and sifting out typos and grammatical errors. I'm grateful for the strong support and belief both Bill Loving (CEO) and Jeff Rupert exhibited towards my work since they came on board and contributed an invaluable chapter, in fact the largest among the contributors.

There's much to be thankful for, as well as anticipation, much like the birth-pangs experience by any woman with child——a mixed feeling of anxiety and joy. It's been a long wait for those who're following my blog, but I can confidently assure you that it will be worth it.

Stay tune and keep watching... and please help spread the word too! Thanks.
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