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

Monday, April 11, 2022

Spoiler Alert!

If there's anything to indicate what you'd be getting from Deciphering Schematics, besides nicely drawn (and well-proportioned) schematic diagrams, there will also be beautiful illustrations such as that found in the following two-page sample from Chapter 5:

Sure, it's going to cost me time and effort to come up with all these vector-based drawings. As an author who writes engineering books that bear my name, I'm not about to let poor reading experience leave a black mark on my hard work. I want readers who buy my books to be assured of the best quality, knowing they are worth every cent of it. And I certainly hope readers will give me the assurance in kind through honest purchases too.

But I can only leave it to personal integrity and just do my part well. In the end, as they say, everything will even out. Meanwhile, stay safe and well, my friends.

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