The circuit in this Design Idea realizes a simple, low-cost lock-in amplifier employing an Analog Devices AD630 balanced modulator-demodulator IC (Reference 1). The device uses laser-trimmed thin-film ...
In high-speed wireless communications systems, signals must be translated in frequency by up-conversion or down-conversion for signal propagation and processing. Traditionally known as mixing, this ...
If we replace the potentiometer VR1 with an AC signal plus DC bias signal in any of the previous Figures 3 to 17, the voltage controlled attenuators can become an amplitude modulator circuit instead.