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

Friday, May 21, 2021

Update on New Book (Part 1)

Am into writing the second chapter of my new book, PCB Diagnostics. Here is a screenshot of the opening chapter:



Nope, this is not a joke. I have intentionally linked PCB diagnostics to the practice of TCM for the human body because I see similarities between the two. I have friends who spent years studying this Chinese medicinal method and got to know firsthand what it entails to be a TCM physician. Inter-disciplinary cross examination can sometimes provide useful insights in our approach towards a familiar practice, and give it a new lease of life where the former luster has somehow faded.

The book will probably take a couple of months to write. I will post updates on the progress in the interim. Hopefully it will be worth the wait for my readers.
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3 comments:

  1. Biotech97May 25, 2021 at 9:08 PM

    I see the comparison you made. Such a great way to have a different view when looking at the PCB. I'm also waiting for your other work to be available ( Manual PCB-RE: The Essentials ) Looking forward to it :)!

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  2. Ng Keng TiongMay 27, 2021 at 9:48 AM

    Glad you saw the point I'm making. As for the other book, readers will have to wait a bit longer as Joe Grand is still busy with his project. I try not to rush him, as much as I wish he would get the Foreword up by the end of this month.

    By the way, have you gotten any of my books? If so, would appreciate that you leave a review in Amazon. Thank you!

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  3. Biotech97August 6, 2021 at 5:11 AM

    Hello and yes ! i already own three of your books and picked up the fourth one today :). I'm definitely waiting for this one ( PCB Diagnostics )

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