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

Sunday, January 16, 2022

Trilogy on Show at CMTS

It's not often that an obscure writer gets his book mentioned at a large technology show, but that's what happened to my trilogy book, PCB-RE: Real-World Examples. The CMTS is Canada's national stage for manufacturing technologies, best practices and industry connections, and the ENA President Mr Gabe Del Bello was invited to speak on the topic of PCB Reverse Engineering. Now that's cool!

In the very first slide, he showcased my book and encouraged those interested in this niche topic to get a copy and find out for themselves what PCB-RE entails. You can click on the snapshot below to go to YouTube and hear his presentation.

Mr Gabe's endorsement can be found at the 5:40 mark.

For those who already have some basic understanding regarding PCB-RE, this IS the best book to get a feel of what real-world practices is really like. To preview its content, click on the book cover at the right of this blog to go to Amazon store.


Ps: Thanks to Marc Hickling for notifying me about this presentation. He's one of the contributors in the trilogy book, and in the chapter attributed to his work he gives a glimpse of ENA Electronics Inc. PCB-RE business process and showcase several examples of successful projects involving obsolete PCBs. As what Mr Gabe would say, "We support the unsupportable."


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