I'm a hardware design engineer designing emulators for 32-bit and 64-bit
RISC Embedded Processors.  I'm new in this list and I'm here because I'm
very interested with the PIC Controllers.  I'm thinking of this new
emulation architecture where small microcontrollers can play a part.

Can anyone tell me how to get acquainted with the PICs?  For example,
Parallax's E-mail addresses, FTP sites for freewares fo PIC software
development tools to help me evaluate the chips, etc.

Thanks.