What I was
getting at is that for problems that can be solved in
both domains, doing so in the digital domain (generally via
software) allows the designer to focus on the problem and far less
so on the physical implementation.
I think this depends -- a lot -- on how the
designer thinks.
Certain;y I find hat for myself going over to the digirtal domain for
what are essentially analopgue problems makes them harder to
understnad.
Some of the analog designers of the past were amazingly clever. Just
today I visited someone who has a Hammond organ with a Leslie.
Apparently we are only now learning how to digitially produce the kind
of effects the Leslie generates with little more than a motor and a
speaker.
And look at the way the early DTMF telephone designers got two tones
out of a single transistor. Not that doing that today would be all
that valuable, but the degree of analog insight necessary to create
that circuit is pretty impressive. Well, to me, at least.
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