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

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Excerpts from the Trilogy

Below is a short quip from Chapter 3 of the trilogy:

The layout diagram for the control logic card is drawn with the help of Microsoft Visio, a versatile 2D technical drafting tool. The whole illustration may look rather complex but if you break it down, each component is really made up of a group of basic shapes (circle, line, rectangle, triangle, etc.) that can be arrayed or aligned easily with Visio's shape manipulation functions. In fact, you can use layering technique to place a photo of the control logic card on one layer and then superimpose the component layout symbols you created on top, taking reference from the photo for quick placement.


You'll notice that there are plenty of footnotes provided to give greater details and interesting notes or observations for an enriching read, without burdening the main text for those who just want a quick first-read-through experience, and then savoring the additional information later.

This feature is found in all my three books on the coveted subject on PCB Reverse Engineering (PCB-RE) which till date, is available only in printed form with treatment on its fundamentals, tools & techniques, and real-world examples, with contributions from various experienced industry experts.

Freebies are available for download to those who purchase 'The Art of PCB-RE' and bonuses are given out to readers who leave their reviews on Amazon. Get your copies today!


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