When a Detector is Called Analog? - just for info

[vito]

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[Elton]

In technological terms, it means something that has an output that's proportional or similar to its input — usually a voltage. Anything digital is the exact opposite: whatever comes out the other end bears no relationship to the soup of binary code that goes in. The word can also be spelled analogue.

 

[Carl-NC]

If the signal goes from the receive coil to the speaker without getting digitized by an ADC and processed in a micro, then it's an analog detector. Pretty much everything made today has DSP of some sort. In rare cases, like the TDI, a micro is used for timing functions but not for DSP, so the TDI is an analog machine.

 

[vito]

In technological terms, it means something that has an output that's proportional or similar to its input — usually a voltage. Anything digital is the exact opposite: whatever comes out the other end bears no relationship to the soup of binary code that goes in. The word can also be spelled analogue.

Hello Elton.

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

If the signal goes from the receive coil to the speaker without getting digitized by an ADC and processed in a micro, then it's an analog detector. Pretty much everything made today has DSP of some sort. In rare cases, like the TDI, a micro is used for timing functions but not for DSP, so the TDI is an analog machine.

Hello Carl.

Thank you for your time to reply, too.

If I only had read Eltons post I'd be very confused and lost. (Sorry Elton )
But I think Carls reply covers it all and in terms very well to understand.

Thank you both so much to clarify this to me.