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, December 26, 2022

On Target or Off-Tangent?

No, I'm not talking about my current book writing per se. This morning I received a message from someone who asked if I'd still consider Target 3001 as a possible avenue for PCB-RE. I vaguely remember mentioning this tool in my trilogy, PCB-RE: Real-World Examples. Out of curiosity, I went over to the software vendor's website to have a look. Lo, and behold:

I mean, I was surprised that my book was featured and recommended on the webpage. But I can't helped laughing when I read the weird language that resembles English. It's probably Google-translated from some other foreign language, judging by the awkward sentence construction. Nonetheless, it should not diminish the effectiveness of the RE tool nor the 'fluency' of my book content (I hope). As one reader by the name Bob Ding remarked:

Have no fear of Mr. Ng's English; it's really good!

Wishing all my friends and readers a wonderful Christmas season of peace and cheer in these uncertain times! Stay safe and well...

 

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