 | Fundamentals of Logic Design (with CD-ROM) by Jr., Charles H. Roth
Buy new: $166.95 / Used from: $20.00 Logic Design is prerequisite by default. You MUST know this if you want to become a digital engineer. Logic design is more annoying than challenging.
I think the most important concepts is this book is: combinatory vs. sequential and iterative logic, and Mealy and Moore Machines.
With the proliferation of CAD tools, I doubt if anyone still uses K-maps.
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 | Digital Integrated Circuits (2nd Edition) by Jan M. Rabaey
Buy new: $117.36 / Used from: $68.40 This book covers all aspect of digital design. I particularly like the arithmetic section and the introduction to tools section. Great Starting point.
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 | Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface. Third Edition, Revised by David A. Patterson
Buy used from: $14.00 A digital engineer should know basic computer organization by heart: Control Logic, Memory Utilization, Buses, and Data Path.
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 | CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective (3rd Edition) by Neil Weste
Buy new: $108.00 / Used from: $85.00 I took Intro. to VLSI Design in 1997. I used an earlier edition of this book. The 2nd edition was probably the most complete book on the topic. I only skimmed through the 3rd edition and I find it to be much better written than the first book.
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 | Application-Specific Integrated Circuits by Michael John Sebastian Smith
Buy used from: $13.90 This book may seem useless if you are already doing research inside a lab because this is actually a compilation of software tools and its description. However, for those who are not fortunate enough to have access to the software tools, this is a great source to learn more about them.
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 | VLSI Digital Signal Processing Systems: Design and Implementation by Keshab K. Parhi
Buy new: $124.06 / Used from: $69.99 As mentioned previously, a very important section for digital engineers is in data path design. The first section of this book gives you the basic tools to analyze algorithms for digital design. I think this is fundamental, and all digital engineers should know them. (Iteration bounds, etc.)
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 | High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic by Howard Johnson
Buy new: $87.74 / Used from: $45.00 Digital engineers should understand something about board-level problems. With the increasing speed of chips, it is important to understand some basics about high-speed problems.
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 | Hdl Chip Design: A Practical Guide for Designing, Synthesizing & Simulating Asics & Fpgas Using Vhdl or Verilog by Douglas J. Smith
Buy used from: $59.99 Writing HDL is a basic skill for digital engineers.
This is, IMHO, the best book for this purpose.
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 | Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits (4th Edition) by Paul R. Gray
Buy new: $139.79 / Used from: $26.75 Need some basic analog concepts
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