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, March 8, 2018

Saelig's RevEng

Well, no... this post is not about an intriguing plot from a suspense novel. Saelig is a company specializing in electronic test, measurement, diagnostic and design solutions, and RevEng is a product from ABI Electronics which it represents in the US.


Dan Evans, the Sales Manager of Saelig, came to know about my book through a tweet I posted in Twitter and bought a copy. He was of course delighted to discover one full chapter on the RevEng system. He has since made contact with me for permission to reproduce that chapter for distribution to his clients, which I heartily approved.

Here's what he wrote in his LinkedIn post:

Although Singapore engineer and author Ng Keng Tiong devoted most of one chapter of his new book to ABI Electronics' RevEng system, people at ABI and Saelig Company were not aware of the author or his work until we saw a tweet about the new book.

Published just three months ago, PCB-RE Tools and Techniques is the sequel to an earlier book titled The Art of PCB Reverse Engineering, which is about reverse engineering the hard way – without assistance from hardware/software tools.  

Along with information from other reverse engineering experts, PCB-RE Tools and Techniques includes information about systems that help automate the process of reverse engineering. Titled Clip-N-Learn: As Easy As ABC, Chapter 8 is mostly devoted to ABI Electronics' RevEng system which, quote:
To demonstrate the clip-n-learn technique I have selected ABI Electronics RevEng system for its straightforward design and ease-of-use.
as the author wrote in his introduction to that chapter.


For more information of the RevEng system for your PCB-RE needs, contact Dan Evans @ Saelig. I'm sure he'll be more than happy to show you its functionalities and capabilities.

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