I WISH, really really wish Microchip or any third party co. would come up with something like electronics workbench simulator. All I can say to this is HEAR HEAR ! A decent tool of this nature would dramatically reduce development time, especially if it catered for the whole PIC range, no more waiting for eraser to do it's bit :-) The present simulator is a pain, and an emulator capable of emulating external circuitry as well, would be magic - you could push your input button(s) and see the display change. A real bonus would be an export facility (circuit description) to some of the pcb design tools out there. We can wish can't we ? Regards Anton Schoultz antons@grindrod.co.za