PCB Reverse-Engineering

[Singapura]

Ever heard or tried doing reverse-engineering on printed circuit boards without schematic diagrams?

You might want to go take a look at the following website for some useful information and tips:

www.visio-for-engineers.com/blog

 

[ArticCynda]

A very good introduction to this topic was also given by Dave Jones: https://www.eevblog.com/2014/10/22/eevblog-675-how-to-reverse-engineer-a-rigol-ds1054z

 

[Singapura]

Thanks, ArticCynda, for the link. Yep, Dave certainly did a pretty amazing job in doing a reverse engineering on the Rigol DS1054Z oscilloscope.

Incidentally, someone posted a request about a year ago, requesting how to do it using the manual approach (see below thread link), which the above should be helpful.

https://www.edaboard.com/threads/311547/

I have posted my thread on EEVblog and it leads to an interesting exchange with a fellow engineer who's doing the same thing as I did in his work:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/eda/pcb-reverse-engineering/

Happy reading. :???:

 

[Ivan-Holm]

if your only have one or two sited pcb boards you can reverse engineer with some data sheet lookup and guess, but if it is a multilayer it is not always easy to do. that why it is good to function and block diagram in your head.