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, October 7, 2021

The Art of Learning

Albert Einstein once said, "Any fool can know; the point is to understand." There are those who learn by reading, and there are those who learn by doing. Every person has a different way of learning and degree of understanding what he or she has learned. Of course, teachers play an important role in cultivating the interest of learning in their students, but how a teacher teaches a subject will determine to some measure how a student learn with understanding.


That's why it's essential for any aspiring book author to lay out a clear objective when setting out to write on a specific subject. This should be stated upfront to let the readers know what to expect and what the book aims to achieve. While a book can be informative in content and engaging in style, it is the reader's mindset that will ultimately decide how much he or she will gain from reading. Learning and teaching go hand in hand, so we can't talk about the art of learning without including the art of teaching, and more:

The art of teaching is patience and clarity; the art of learning is listening and asking the right questions; and the art of understanding what you learn is knowing how to relate the facts to experience.

Now you know, but do you understand?

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  1. Biotech97October 12, 2021 at 6:44 AM

    Can't wait for this beauty to be released ! as well as PCB Diagnostics.

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