Programmable

Keyboard/Display Interface -
8279
 8279 contains the following features:
 Simultaneous and independent scanning of a keyboard and
refresh of a display,
 significantly offloading these functions from the
microprocessor.
Keyboard section:
 8-character Keyboard FIFO
 2-Key Lockout or N-key Rollover with Contact Debounce
 Interrupt Output on Key Entry
 Programmable Keyboard Scan & Debounce rates
Display Section:
 Dual 8- or 16-Numeric Display
 Single 16-Character Display
 Right or Left Entry 16-Byte Display RAM with address auto increment
 Programmable internal Keyboard & display timing
PIN DIAGRAM
 Pinout Definition 8279
 P A0: Selects data (0) or control/status (1) for reads and
writes between micro and 8279.
 P BD: Output that blanks the displays.
 P CLK: Used internally for timing. Max is 3 MHz.
 P CN/ST: Control/strobe, connected to the control key on
the keyboard.
 P CS: Chip select that enables programming, reading the keyboard, etc.
 P DB7-DB0: Consists of bidirectional pins that connect to data bus on micro.
 P IRQ: Interrupt request, becomes 1 when a key is pressed, data is available.
 P OUT A3-A0/B3-B0: Outputs that sends data to the most significant/least
significant nibble of display.
 P RD(WR): Connects to micro's IORC or RD signal, reads data/status registers.
 P RESET: Connects to system RESET.
 P RL7-RL0: Return lines are inputs used to sense key depression in the keyboard
matrix.
 P Shift: Shift connects to Shift key on keyboard.
 P SL3-SL0: Scan line outputs scan both the keyboard and displays
 KEYBOARD SECTION
 Has eight lines: RL0 to RL7 + two additional lines:
CNTL/STB; connected to 8 columns of the keyboard
 2 modes:
 2 key lockout: if two keys are pressed simultaneously only 1st key
is recognized
 N-key rollover: simultaneous keys are recognized and their codes
are stored in internal buffer.
 Keyboard section also includes 8X8 FIFO which
further consists of eight registers that can store 8
keyboard entries.
 SCAN SECTION
 Has scan counter and four scan lines: SL0 to
SL3
 These are decoded using 4X16 decoder
 Further these 16 lines are connected to rows of
matrix keyboard and digital drivers of
multiplexed display
 DISPLAY SECTION
 Has 8 output lines divided into 2 groups A0 to
A3 and B0 to B3
 These lines can be used as a group of 8 lines or
2 groups of 4 lines each in conjunction to scan
lines for display
 Display can be blanked by BD line
 Includes 16X8 display RAM
 MPU can read or write into these registers
 MPU INTERFACE SECTION
 Includes 8 bidir. Data lines (DB0-DB7), one
Interrupt Request (IRQ) and six lines for
interfacing, including buffer add line A0
 When A0 is high – control word
 When A0 is low – signals are interrupted and
they act as data lines
 IRQ goes high whenever data entries are
stored in FIFO