As you may know, Amar Palacherla was the original designer responsible for the PIC Master at Microchip Tech, several years ago. I was theN. European Application Engineer before beconimg the Regional Manager for ASIA Pacific. After Leaving Microchip, Amar and I got together to design a new version of emulator for the PIC16CXX, under contract from Microchip. We now have the ICEPIC16CXX. We believe it is the best emulator on the market particularly at the price. It is a ful real time emulator operating under Windows, with a complete Integrated Development Environment (includes source level debug for assembler and "c"), with a serial port interface for notebook users. For further information and demo software, please see our web page on http://www.stph.net/icepic For European customers, the ICEPIC meets the new CE compliance. best regards John Fairall