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

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Of Jigs and Gigs

To be honest, writing can be fun yet demanding. Fun in the sense I got to decide on the content and style; demanding because it's a fine line I'm walking to balance fact and humor, both of which are essential for an overall enjoyable reading experience. For chapter 3, Building Test Jigs, I have interjected some gigs in the form of TCM analogy and personal anecdotes.

Here's a two-page sample:

I would like to take this opportunity to appeal to readers who have bought my books to also leave a comment on the Amazon product page (if you have not already done so). Your feedback is important to let me know if I'm doing it right (my style of writing), as well as a morale boost for me.

A little encouragement goes a long way, especially for a writer like me. You, my readers, are the only real people in an author's world and works. Some have become companions to me in this lonely journey of mine, for which I am most grateful.

Stay safe and well, my friends!

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3 comments:

  1. Biotech97November 10, 2022 at 2:40 AM

    Always rooting you on ! I hope to be your first reviewer again for PCB Diagnostics. So far is everything going as planned for December?

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  2. Ng Keng TiongNovember 10, 2022 at 10:14 AM

    I'm working towards that deadline but besides unforeseen circumstances, the perfectionist in me is another factor to contend with as to how much is enough to get the book published.

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  3. Biotech97November 10, 2022 at 11:35 PM

    Take your time even if you don't finish the deadline. The perfectionist in you is what distinguishes you from other authors.

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