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

Conceptual

Having worked for almost thirty years in the electronics sector, first in the air force using the versatile RADCOM weapon system test station to service 75% of the E-2C Hawkeye avionics, and then in a home-grown defense industry to develop test programs and repair PCBs on an assortment of ATEs, from the text-based command prompt Schlumberger S700 series testers, to the graphical windows-based menu-driven Teradyne Spectrum testers, as well as the state-of-the-art WesTest DATS-2000 for the F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft, I have amassed enough experience to write a whole set of books on automatic test equipment.

Below are the four-volume ATE series of books I had in mind:





The conceptual book cover designs give an overall picture of what entails in each of these remarkable test systems which I had worked on. There's much to write about but so little time. Priorities and interests in such topics, however, will dictate whether these book will materialize.

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