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, February 22, 2018

WesTest-2000 DATS

Some time in the end of 2003, my department clinched a project to develop 18 test program sets (TPS) for the F-16 avionics. The test platform was a relatively unknown (to me) tester from WesTest Engineering Corporation, based in Utah, US.

A number of our senior engineers were selected to attend a training on the test system and by early 2004, we were already designing test fixtures and developing test programs using the WT-2000's TDE under Windows as well as running LASAR simulations with Sun's Ultra 5 workstation installed with Solaris 8. It was both challenging and exciting, and sometimes excruciating given the tight development schedule and little help available, since we were the only ones working on this new test system in Singapore!

Below is the book cover concept for the fourth and final volume:


If you've not taken a look on the previous volumes concept artwork, go to past posts and get a feel. Better yet, give me your support and comments as to whether I should proceed to write, or else these will just remain as still-born ideas.
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