[quote name='Count Bassy' timestamp='1378376177' post='2199253']
Any width that's a multiple of the controlling DSP clock (might be thinking more in terms of servo amplifiers here), and the filter takes a digital signal (all right, one bit resolution) and generates a true analogue value. Sound like an D to A process to me, if not in the conventional sense.
So is a bit in my PC memory, that can be set to 0 or 1 for any length of time, an analogue device?
According some definitions here the only thing that's digital on my computer is the sound card, because it has A/D and D/A converters.!
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All devices are analogue, because digital functions only really happen in theory, as a data process, thus need the conversion step, its numbers not a real thing. Analogue device, digital function. A wind up clock moves a set distance each tick, still analogue, there is no digital data processing, I could rig up a mechanical device with a digital output, in the sense it could have the 88:88 style display, just working of moving parts, it would be analogue, but that time output would be digital to read out, half past four in the afternoon would be 16:30, you see those digits, a digital output, and convert it to half past four, that is the conversion step.
There is no digital signal, so the filter is a filter not a converter. At no point is the signal been rendered into digital data form. DSP is a separate thing.