The reverse engineering system helps save operation time, quickly identify, trace, and repair printed circuit board (PCB) errors, and research and develop products.
1. General introduction
The reverse engineering system’s purpose is summarized as follows:
From the existing PCB, its image is inserted into the computer through the scanner. The software system used by expert engineers will convert each part from images of each PCB layer to Gerber files, Drill files, Assembly Data, Virtual PCB, Nestist, and principle circuits.
2. Operating principles and procedures
The process to make a reverse-engineered product from a given PCB:
- Create a BOM file: Create data about all components mounted on the board, their fundamental parameters, the manufacturer, and where the components can be purchased.
- Taking photos of the PCB: Taking pictures of the PCB will create input data for data processing software. There are two ways a PCB can be taken picture as input data:
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- Destructive method: It is a pressure spray system with microscopic glass particles of 0.3 microns in size under high pressure to clean the PCB surface and peel off layers of multilayer PCB. After peeling off each layer, high-resolution photography will be taken as input data.
- Non-destructive method: X-ray imaging system. With support from the X-ray machine, tomographic images of each multilayer PCB layer will be fed directly into the processing software. The PCB is entirely intact after the reverse engineering process.
- Create Gerber file from input data: Gerber file is a type of file with complete information about printed circuit layers.
- Create Drill file: A type of file containing information about drilling holes in printed circuits from the top to the last layer.
Note: With data from Gerber and Drill files, users can send that information to printed circuit manufacturers and thoroughly test the PCB that needs to be reverse-engineered.
- Create PCB images to see the entire circuit board
- Create Netlist file
- Create Schematics file: principle diagram.
3. Data on reverse engineering a 4-layer PCB
4. Proposed solution
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