I never tried my hand on embedded systems, until I finished my one year coursework.
Generally, in India, you have to do a one year coursework followed by a one year development work to get your Masters degree.
So one day, probably early June, I was called upon by my guide.
I was told that if I was interested, he would like to assign me with the development work of a novel type of router. WOW!!! That is fun, I thought.
It turned out that its more than that. I was told that I was in a one member team. The work was new, no reference is available, and though I am entitled to help, I have to learn up mostly by myself and also teach my guide.
Now, this IS fun.
So time to download datasheet, blowing up a few PIC16F877, heating up your iron and making a JDM programmer, learn up embedded C programming and sdcc.
In the subsequent blogs, I shall write whatever I could learn and am learning in the process, not only to share but also with an ulterior motivation of keeping a draft documentation. 
As the current maintainer of SDCC I would like to invite you to become either the primary maintainer of SDCC or a co-maintainer. I am no longer an active user of SDCC, and the Fedora package is suffering from my lack of time devoted to maintaining it.
WOW!!! Thats nice…Jumping in.
For the time being as co-maintainer, after a bit familiarisation, may be I shall be able to take it over.
I shall contact you on mail.