I've previously tried to get Microchip to provide me with technical specs for
their bond-out chips (under non-disclosure), so that I could develop a
low-cost PIC emulator.  They apparently didn't take me seriously, perhaps
because my company is not currently in the ICE business.  (If that is the
reason, it's a nice catch-22 situation.)

I asked Scenix whether they were making technical information about the SX
available under non-disclosure in order to spur the development of more
software and hardware tools for the SX, but they said that they were only
supporting tool development by Parallax.  :-(

Let's hope that the data sheets for the SX actually contain all of the
technical information necessary to develop third-party tools.  Remember that
Microchip didn't include programming specs in their early data sheets, and
it was darned difficult to get them.  The PIC didn't really take off until
that kind of information was widely available, and there were lots of
development tools.

Since one of the highly-touted features of the Scenix SX is the on-board
debugging/emulation support, it would be a shame if they didn't document it
and no other vendors offered tools.  Or if they only made the doumentation
available to "big" companies.

Eric