Actually, a couple of years I ago in school I created a robot that found its way around a room searching for and recording the frequncies of infra-red light emitters. Used a PIC processor and MPLAB.
I guess I knew something without realizing it.
In the meantime I've been reading the intro chapters to "Real-Time Concepts for Embedded Systems", doesn't seem the most detailed book but since I already know quite a bit about architecture and hardware I shouldn't need too much detail. Concepts just to connect what I know with the special considerations of this kind of work is good.
I am also thinking of combining practicing my VHDL and embedded stuff by using a soft core processor on my FPGA board for embedded development. That would be a great project but I'm probably getting a little ahead of myself!
Anyways, thanks for the suggestion and sorry again for the "I want to learn" thread, I was reading threads in the Jobs section and panicked.