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, January 8, 2018

Off to a Good Start...

To date, my blog has registered 3,600 views with visitors from nearly 50 countries. Since publishing the sequel to my book, within a week there were several Amazon online orders from US, UK and DE, with 50 copies in the pipeline for a bulk order from a digital forensic training company. This is very encouraging compared to when I started with my first book!

A reader from ETAS GmbH, Germany by the name Dr Stephan Pabst, who bought The Art of PCB Reverse Engineering and left a glowing review on Amazon.de immediately ordered the sequel book when he learned that it is published. This is what he wrote in an email to me:

Your first book about reverse-engineering PCBs is, in my opinion, the best publication on this topic, so I am now looking forward to learning even more details while reading the sequel.

The debut offer is still on at the moment but it will not last indefinitely. Order your copy at the 20% discounted price now before the offer ends.



Note: ETAS GmbH is a company that provides innovative solutions, engineering services, consulting, training, and support for the development of embedded systems for the automotive industry and other sectors of the embedded industry.
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