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, July 13, 2019

100 Countries and Counting...

As of today, my blog has hit over 14,700 views with visitors from over 100 countries. Not surprising most are from the USA, and Singapore coming in second followed by France, UK and India. Based on sales of the trilogy books, again Amazon US comes in first, followed by UK and then the EU.


Without the help of readers with good engineering community spirit, this blog would not have achieved such success in less than two years. But I'm sure more can be done to get engineers interested in PCB-RE aware of these resources, if readers can help spread the word in forums and discussion groups.

If you have found my works to be beneficial, all I ask is that you recommend my books or this blog to your friends, colleagues or the engineering community which you belong. It would encourage me to blog more often and even write about my other engineering experience in PCB testing, automated test platforms, diagnostics skills, etc.

Thanks much!
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