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Conversion from analog to digital will necessarily involve the loss of information. Now the question is, is the data lost crucial to the operation of your syste
by kelvin0 10y ago
Conversion from analog to digital will necessarily involve the loss of information. Now the question is, is the data lost crucial to the operation of your system or not? If losing some data is not that big a deal, you might as well build it digitally from the ground up? On the other hand if you can't afford to lose any original information from your analog system, you might have quite a few obstacles to overcome and design an entire system which would be analog based (kinda like the human brain on some level). But then again, if you can build a perfect functioning human brain a nobel prize awaits you.
- adamnemecek 10y ago> Conversion from analog to digital will necessarily involve the loss of information. Now the question is, is the data lost crucial to the operation of your system or not? If losing some data is not that big a deal, you might as well build it digitally from the ground up? I think of it as the output being the solution of an equation/dynamic system. It's ok you lose the equations, you care about the solution. I've been doing some light internet research into this not too long ago and came across this title https://www.amazon.com/Neuromorphic-Photonics-Paul-R-Prucnal/dp/1498725228/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1484086290&sr=8-3&keywords=photonics+neural+networks&linkCode=ll1&tag=akhn-20&linkId=32c9eac37d5cf1c5815e59f1098bbfb9 https://www.amazon.com/Neuromorphic-Photonics-Paul-R-Prucnal... that seems to suggest that analog photonics might be the way forward. But I can't really comment on the state of this. Photonics is definitely becoming more and more viable it appears.