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

Sunday, February 18, 2018

David Protzman

If you bought PCB-RE:Tools & Techniques, you'd no doubt know who is David Protzman. For those who don't, he is a senior research engineer at a company called Department 13 which specializes in counter drone technology. He also volunteers his time as secretary at Unallocated Space Inc, a technology-based community center that does collaborative education and research works.



Since I made reference to his works for the JTAG-RE chapter, it was only right that I acknowledged and gave him credit with a complimentary copy of the book. Here's his email reply:

The book arrived at the end of the month as expected. I have read through about the first third and have been very impressed with the depth and attention to little details that you explained! I will be working with my office to procure a couple of them for reference and training since we do a fair bit of RE ourselves. I have a coworker who is well known in a smaller RE field that I will be recommending your book to as well. 
Excellent work on the book, and thank you very, very much for the complimentary copy! And a big thank you for including my name and my work in such a well thought out book!!

You heard it from the man himself. What more can I say? :)
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