Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: A Zero-Second-IF SiGe BiCMOS Satellite Radio Tuner Using a Single PLL for Both RF and IF LO Generation and a Replica Ring-VCO Calibrated IF Filter

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"A Zero-Second-IF SiGe BiCMOS Satellite Radio Tuner Using a Single PLL for Both RF and IF LO Generation and a Replica Ring-VCO Calibrated IF Filter"
by Maxim, A.; Gheorge, M.; Turinici, C.;
in the Proceedings of the IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting, 2007. BCTM '07.
Sept. 30 2007-Oct. 2 2007 Page(s):1 - 4

After careful and considered review, it has been determined that the above paper is in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

Specifically, the paper contains information that Adrian Maxim admits had been falsified. In response to an inquiry on this misconduct, Mr. Maxim acknowledged that the following people who have been listed as co-authors on several of his papers are fabricated names and that he is the only author:

C. Turinici, D. Smith, S. Dupue, M. Gheorge, R. Johns, D. Antrik

Additionally, in papers by Mr. Maxim that have co-authors other than those listed above, it was discovered in some cases that he had not consulted with them while writing the papers, and submitted papers without their knowledge.

Although Mr. Maxim maintains that not all of the data is falsified, IEEE nevertheless cannot assure the integrity of papers posted by him because of his repeated false statements.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to the above paper, and to refrain from any future references.
A fully-integrated tuner for digital satellite audio radio applications using a second-zero-IF dual conversion architecture was realized in a 0.2 mum SiGe BiCMOS technology. An autonomous RF-AGC and a channel decoder IC controlled IF-AGC were used to optimize the signal path gain for a wide range of input signal levels. A single PLL drives both RF and IF mixers, resulting in a smaller die area and lower power dissipation. Down-converting the signal to baseband further reduces tuner's power due to a lower required ADC sampling frequency and resolution. Providing a digital baseband I/Q output allows the implementation of the channel decode IC in a standard digital CMOS process, reducing the overall receiver cost. SDARS tuner performance includes: 5 dB noise figure, 55 dB image rejection, -100 dBm input sensitivity, +15 dBm IIP3 at min gain, 40/60d B RF/IF AGC range, 120 mA current consumption from a 3.3 V supply and 15 mm
²
die area.