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, August 9, 2022

Released with a Blast!

After a year of hard work, my fifth engineering book Deciphering Schematics, is finally online and ready for order! I have chosen August 9 as the date of release, though the book was submitted on the 2nd which resulted in that release date. Still, it's a blast much like the 21-gun presidential salute, performed by the 23rd Artillery Battalion, on our National Day Parade:

Readers who are anticipating and waiting for this book can now purchase it on Amazon. Simply click on the photo above to be transported to the ordering page (US only), or if you live outside the US, just search for my name on the Amazon store of your country to locate it.

Thanks for your patience and understanding. I do hope that you will find the book beneficial to your work and personal skill in deciphering electronic circuits. Do leave a review and let me know what you think. This is the desire of every author and it will most certainly motivate me in writing my upcoming sixth engineering book, PCB Diagnostics.

Take care and have a great week!

Note: Photo courtesy of my friend Jeremy Loei, an avid photographer.

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