I mean, it's funny, for the most part their audio/music section is totally focused on DSP.  I mean, I would have hoped that Analog Devices would have "stayed true" with analog and not be sucked into the bounds of all this other junk.

-Colin

Analog Devices is trying to survive. If they limited themselves to pure analog devices, they would sooner or later be out of business. The economies of scale for digital gear are just too persuasive.

No business survives long by holding on to a cause. Economics has no higher calling, and businesses are purely economic entities if they are for profit and not externally supported.

You're a DIYer aren't you? If you want analog, build it yourself

There are analog *devices* and analog *tasks*.  Many are comfortable in using digital solutions to analog tasks, although admittedly, there are some analog tasks that some digital technology doesn't solve as well sometimes as analog technology can...for the moment.

Analog Shmanalog!
Digital Schmigital!
Oy Vey!!

Regards

RDV

At the silicon level, all the insides of a "digital" chip are analog.  Strange but true.

...and at a physico-empirical level, all actions are digital....they're either done or not done....

....also, at the quantum level everything is digital-probabilistic (e.g. electrons can have only certain energy levels - there are no "in between" states)

Now my brain hurts....I think I better increase my medication...

Quote from: RDVAnalog Shmanalog!
Digital Schmigital!
Oy Vey!!

Regards

RDV

Best post ever :lol:

Quote from: smoguzbenjaminYou're a DIYer aren't you? If you want analog, build it yourself

Build a quad 4 quandrand multiplier myself?  Build a 4096 stage analog delay myself?  Oy vey!

Quote from: Paul Perry (Frostwave)At the silicon level, all the insides of a "digital" chip are analog.  Strange but true.

Well, of course, but that's sort of irrelavent, the fact is that they work in very different ways and are two totally different creatures.  Your rice is made out of grain but if you went into a field and ate some wheat you'd choke it up.

-Colin

i love it when people consider DSP a feature on stuff like guitar amps...im like "huh?"

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Quote from: Paul Perry (Frostwave)At the silicon level, all the insides of a "digital" chip are analog.  Strange but true.

Well, of course, but that's sort of irrelavent, the fact is that they work in very different ways and are two totally different creatures.  -Colin

It isn't irrelevant if you are a chip designer or manufacturer. The technology is very similar. What IS unfortunate, is that when AD takes over smaller chip companies to get key items, they drop the chips they don't want. Like some of the PMI and SSM stuff. I wonder if they know how much bad will this causes!

Quote from: anonymousexperimentalistBuild a quad 4 quandrand multiplier myself? Build a 4096 stage analog delay myself? Oy vey!

OK yeah maybe that's over-the-top. Uhm.... Yeah :lol: