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

Saturday, January 5, 2019

A Shred of Sliver Lining

Continuing from my previous post on the setbacks encountered during the writing of my trilogy book, just when things seem dark and despondent despite my best effort to keep on working, I received an email out of the blue from the president of Elgris Tecnologies, Inc., Igor Luvishis.


He wrote:
First of all, let me thank you for the work you do writing about PCB reverse engineering. As our company is working in this field for many years, I really appreciate your effort.

We got both of your books with the PCB-RE Tools and Techniques book arriving just few days ago. This second book is devoted to the PCB-RE tools available on the market.

It's a pity that Elgris Technologies and our tool (E-studio For Test) are not mentioned in the latest book. 'E-studio For Test' is one of the major tools used by customers for schematic generation from netlists for boards that are being reverse-engineered. 
We will be glad to work with you and to help/participate in any possible way by writing, providing material, sponsoring a section or chapter devoted to Elgris Technologies tools.

We would also be happy to discuss other potential business arrangements with you.

I look forward to your response.

It's definitely a game changer with this surprise voluntary contributor knocking on my door. I see a shred of silver lining breaking through the dark clouds, and that's a good thing indeed!

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