2025 Oktoberfest with IEEE EMC & SAE Chicago

The IEEE EMC & SAE Chicago chapters welcome the annual Oktoberfest social and technical meeting where members, guests, and interested attendees come together for a festive evening of conversation and professional networking. We will have Oktoberfest-themed food, refreshments, learning, and more, so come and connect with your local technical community colleagues.

This is a FREE event and everyone is welcome to attend – registration is required.

EMC and SI Challenges with SerDes Camera Systems for Automotive Driver Assisted Technologies

By Keith Frazier

Road safety has vastly increased due to continued development in Automotive Driver Assisted Systems (ADAS). A critical element of these systems are high resolution digital cameras. To facilitate high data transfer between the camera and the ADAS electronic control unit, serial/deserializer (“SerDes”) communication links are used, which primarily consist of coaxial cable interconnects. This talk will focus on the challenges in using SerDes in an automotive environment with special focus on required shielding performance. The talk includes a review of current USCAR (The United States Council for Automotive Research) standards and needed future improvements.

Keith Frazier served as Senior Technical Leader of Electromagnetic Compatibility for Ford Motor Company responsible for oversight of all EMC design of Ford automotive products worldwide. His interests include system/subsystem design and analysis for EMC. Between receiving his BSEE from Purdue University in 1976 and joining Ford in 1990, Keith served as an EMC and TEMPEST design engineer for various automotive and aerospace firms including GM, Lockheed, and Magnavox Government Electronics. He is a Life Senior Member of IEEE and has authored and presented multiple technical papers and presentations at regional and international symposiums. Keith has authored and co-authored multiple SAE and ISO immunity standards as an active member of the USTAG to CISPR D and ISO TC22/SC32/WG3 international standards committees. In 2008, Keith served as Technical Papers Co-chair for the 2008 IEEE EMC Symposium held in Detroit, Michigan. In the fall of 2023, he was elected member at large of the EMC Society’s Board of Governors and Officers at Large for 2024-2026.

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