• DocumentCode
    2909148
  • Title

    Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles
    9.953-12.5GHz 0.13μm CMOS LC VCO using a high resolution calibration and a constant gain varactor

  • Author

    Maxim, A. ; Turinici, C.

  • Author_Institution
    Integrated Products, Austin, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    21-21 Sept. 2005
  • Firstpage
    545
  • Lastpage
    548
  • Abstract
    Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

    "9.953-12.5GHz 0.13μm CMOS LC VCO Using a High Resolution Calibration and a Constant Gain Varactor"
    by A. Maxim and C. Turinici,
    in the Proceedings of the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2005

    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 multi-standard LC oscillator for 10Gb/s SERDES applications was realized in a 0.13μm CMOS process. The phase noise was reduced by using a high quality factor bond wire inductor in conjunction with a high resolution calibration network that brings the oscillating frequency to within 0.1% of the target value, reducing thus the oscillator gain below 110MHz/V. A low gain ripple varactor was realized with multiple parallel connected accumulation MOS capacitors having the bias voltages offset such that their peak gain points are uniformly distributed over the control voltage range. The supply pushing w- s minimized by cancelling the gate capacitance positive voltage coefficient with the negative coefficient of an appropriately sized drain diffusion capacitance. A dual regulator architecture was used to ensure the low noise and high PSRR requirements.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; MOS capacitors; inductors; microwave oscillators; varactors; voltage-controlled oscillators; 0.13 micron; 10 Gbit/s; 9.953 to 12.5 GHz; CMOS process; LC VCO; LC oscillator; MOS capacitors; bias voltages offset; bond wire inductor; constant gain varactor; drain diffusion capacitance; dual regulator architecture; gate capacitance; high resolution calibration; negative voltage coefficient; phase noise; positive voltage coefficient; ripple varactor; voltage controlled oscillators; Bonding; CMOS process; Calibration; Capacitance; Notice of Violation; Phase noise; Q factor; Varactors; Voltage-controlled oscillators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2005. Proceedings of the IEEE 2005
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9023-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CICC.2005.1568726
  • Filename
    1568726