I tested the mixer, the demodulated signal from input at 10 - 100 Hz might be too small and too distorted to get reliable data.
As we want to square/demodulate signal in 10 - 100 Hz BW. a low frequency mixer might be a good tool. I asked Alastair to buy this mixer for me, and it arrived today.
The lowest acceptable frequency in the design is 500 Hz, but I don't know how well it works at 10 - 100 Hz so I tested it.
==Setup and result==
I used SR785 to generate sine wave, then split it with a T and connected the output to LO and RF of the mixer.
I tested that the mixer works fine at the designed frequency. The plot below shows the result from 1kHz signal input.

Next, I changed the frequency to 10 Hz, 50Hz, and 100Hz.
The demodulated signal is then observed in frequency domain (left column of the plot) and in time domain ( right column of the plot)
I think the peaks at driving frequencies (10Hz, 50Hz, 100Hz and their harmonics) appear because of the offset of the sine input signal.

The results for low frequency seem to be too distorted. We will test the AD734 chips tomorrow. I got the package this afternoon. |