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, March 28, 2018

5-Star Review from a PCB-RE Engineer

This morning I received a FB message from an engineer in Canada, expressing his appreciation for my sequel book. He was so impressed after reading it, he left a review on Amazon.ca:


I'm a professional reverse engineer by trade and have worked on many reverse engineering projects at ENA Electronics in Hamilton, Canada (a sample work can be found at the ENA Electronics website). Many of the techniques that are mentioned in this book we are already using long before the author put it together based on our own research and findings. BUT Keng Tiong did a remarkable job of pooling people from all over the industry and bringing their publications and research together in one place and putting the valuable content into one book. He took the initiative that many of us wished we could have done and made it happened.
I opened the book yesterday at 6 pm and read it through until midnight, I couldn't get enough of it! Finishing the book left me brimming with even more ideas and concepts that can be possibly put in place in a professional environment to ensure our customers receive the best quality service and support, making sure those legacy products last longer into the future. 
Hats off for the great work! I look forward to your follow-up in the trilogy!
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