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

Thursday, January 25, 2018

First 5-Star Review

Just received the very first 5-star review from a reader of PCB-RE:Tools & Techniques:


I thoroughly enjoyed the book. It has many chapters on all sorts of techniques to reverse engineer printed circuit boards with the intent of either replacing them with identical boards that no longer exist, or determining the schematic for debugging a faulty circuit. From low-tech to high-tech techniques. I've been inspired by the book to troubleshoot and fix a vexing 1970's calculator for which schematics no longer exist.

It is heartening that the hard work put into writing and assembling this book has inspired the likes of readers such as Mr Baruch to at least give a go in reversing some legacy PCB. In time to come, I hope more readers will share their exploits and experiences, and who knows... I may come out with a trilogy that details your interesting stories and skills.

Now that's something to think about, readers!
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