PCA Reverse Engineering, also known as printed circuit board redesigning, is using clone technology onto the PCA which was designed and manufactured by others, it is to use PCB with mounted components related software to copy someone else’s PCA and then manufacture it by yourself.
This is the tradditional explanation for circuit card reverse engineering. with the PCB reverse engineering technology development, the impact and scope of this industry continues to expand rapidly, and the definition of PCB board reverse engineering also extend from the narrow sense that: PCB card clone only refers to extraction of PCB file from electronic circuit board and then restore it;
To the wide sense that pcb clone not only include PCB file extraction, Circuit Board Reverse Engineering and other related technical aspect, but also modify PCB file, the shape of the mold for electronic products, extraction of 3-dimensional model data on a variet of electronic products, compile the components list assembled on the PCA as well as individual data sheets on each component where available, decrypt microcontroller on the circuit board, crack encrypted IC on the PCB, moreover, inverse assemble the firmware of PCA Board and etc, a whole set of circuit board restoration technology.