Abstract: For use with a reluctance sensor, a digital detector (200) accurately detects, in the presence of noise, a valid transition in the sensor's output signal (10, 202). A first flip-flop (216) is used for sensing a positive going edge (310, 334A) in the sensor signal and for providing an inhibit pulse (312, 332, 336) of a first predetermined time period in response thereto. A second flip-flop (218) responds to the end of the inhibit pulse, if the sensor signal is in the high logic state, by sensing a subsequent negative going edge (318, 334B) in the sensor signal. If the negative going edge is sensed, the digital detector indicates that a valid transition in the sensor signal occurred.