Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Zero-Second-IF SiGe BiCMOS Satellite Radio Tuner Using a Dual RF/IF AGC Loop

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Zero-Second-IF SiGe BiCMOS Satellite Radio Tuner Using a Dual RF IF AGC Loop"
by Maxim, A.; Gheorge, M.; Turinici, C.;
in the Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2007
14-16 June 2007 Page(s):210 - 211

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

Specifically, the coauthor's name was fabricated by Adrian Maxim and added to the paper. 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 0.2 mum SiGe BiCMOS tuner for digital satellite audio radio applications was realized using a second-zero-IF dual conversion architecture with autonomous RF AGC and channel decoder controlled IF AGC. A single PLL drives both RF and IF mixers, resulting in a smaller die area and lower power dissipation. Providing a baseband I/Q output further reduces receiver's power due to a lower ADC and digital core operating frequency. SDARS tuner performance includes: 5dB noise figure, 55dB image rejection, -96 dBm input sensitivity, 100 mA current from a 3.3 V supply and 12 mm
²
die area.