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Interfacing hex keypad to 8051
This article is about interfacing a hex key pad to 8051 microcontroller. A clear knowledge on interfacing hex
key pad to 8051 is very essential while designing embedded system projects which requires character or
numeric input or both. For example projects like digital code lock, numeric calculator etc. Before going to the
interfacing in detail, lets have a look at the hex keypad.
Hex keypad.
Hex key pad is essentially a collection of 16 keys arranged in the form of a 44 matrix. Hex key pad usually
have keys representing numerics 0 to 9 and characters A to F. The simplified diagram of a typical hex key pad
is shown in the figure below.
Hex key pad
The hex keypad has 8 communication lines namely R1, R2, R3, R4, C1, C2, C3 and C4. R1 to R4 represents
the four rows and C1 to C4 represents the four columns. When a particular key is pressed the corresponding
row and column to which the terminals of the key are connected gets shorted. For example if key 1 is pressed
row R1 and column C1 gets shorted and so on. The program identifies which key is pressed by a method known
as column scanning. In this method a particular row is kept low (other rows are kept high) and the columns
are checked for low. If a particular column is found low then that means that the key connected between that
column and the corresponding row (the row that is kept low) is been pressed. For example if row R1 is initially
kept low and column C1 is found low during scanning, that means key 1 is pressed.
Interfacing hex keypad to 8051.
The circuit diagram for demonstrating interfacing hex keypad to 8051 is shown below.Like previous 8051
projects, AT89S51 is the microcontroller used here. The circuit will display the character/numeric pressed on a
seven segment LED display. The circuit is very simple and it uses only two ports of the microcontroller, one for
the hex keypad and the other for the seven segment LED display.
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Int er facing hex key pad t o 805 1
The hex keypad is interfaced to port 1 and seven segment LED display is interfaced to port 0 of the
microcontroller. Resistors R1 to R8 limits the current through the corresponding segments of the LED display.
Capacitors C1, C2 and crystal X1 completes the clock circuitry for the microcontroller. Capacitor C3, resistor R9
and push button switch S1 forms a debouncing reset mechanism.
Program.
ORG 00H
MOV DPTR,#LUT // moves starting address of LUT to DPTR
MOV A,#11111111B // loads A with all 1's
MOV P0,#00000000B // initializes P0 as output port
BACK:MOV P1,#11111111B // loads P1 with all 1's
CLR P1.0 // makes row 1 low
JB P1.4,NEXT1 // checks whether column 1 is low and jumps to NEXT1 if not low
MOV A,#0D // loads a with 0D if column is low (that means key 1 is pressed)
ACALL DISPLAY // calls DISPLAY subroutine
NEXT1:JB P1.5,NEXT2 // checks whether column 2 is low and so on...
MOV A,#1D
ACALL DISPLAY
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NEXT2:JB P1.6,NEXT3
MOV A,#2D
ACALL DISPLAY
NEXT3:JB P1.7,NEXT4
MOV A,#3D
ACALL DISPLAY
NEXT4:SETB P1.0
CLR P1.1
JB P1.4,NEXT5
MOV A,#4D
ACALL DISPLAY
NEXT5:JB P1.5,NEXT6
MOV A,#5D
ACALL DISPLAY
NEXT6:JB P1.6,NEXT7
MOV A,#6D
ACALL DISPLAY
NEXT7:JB P1.7,NEXT8
MOV A,#7D
ACALL DISPLAY
NEXT8:SETB P1.1
CLR P1.2
JB P1.4,NEXT9
MOV A,#8D
ACALL DISPLAY
NEXT9:JB P1.5,NEXT10
MOV A,#9D
ACALL DISPLAY
NEXT10:JB P1.6,NEXT11
MOV A,#10D
ACALL DISPLAY
NEXT11:JB P1.7,NEXT12
MOV A,#11D
ACALL DISPLAY
NEXT12:SETB P1.2
CLR P1.3
JB P1.4,NEXT13
MOV A,#12D
ACALL DISPLAY
NEXT13:JB P1.5,NEXT14
MOV A,#13D
ACALL DISPLAY
NEXT14:JB P1.6,NEXT15
MOV A,#14D
ACALL DISPLAY
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NEXT15:JB P1.7,BACK
MOV A,#15D
ACALL DISPLAY
LJMP BACK
DISPLAY:MOVC A,@A+DPTR // gets digit drive pattern for the current key from LUT
MOV P0,A // puts corresponding digit drive pattern into P0
RET
LUT: DB 01100000B // Look up table starts here
DB 11011010B
DB 11110010B
DB 11101110B
DB 01100110B
DB 10110110B
DB 10111110B
DB 00111110B
DB 11100000B
DB 11111110B
DB 11110110B
DB 10011100B
DB 10011110B
DB 11111100B
DB 10001110B
DB 01111010B
END
About the program.
Firstly the program initializes port 0 as an output port by writing all 0s to it and port 1 as an input port by
writing all 1s to it. Then the program makes row 1 low by clearing P1.0 and scans the columns one by one for
low using JB instruction.If column C1 is found low, that means 1 is pressed and accumulator is loaded by zero
and DISPLAY subroutine is called. The display subroutine adds the content in A with the starting address of
LUT stored in DPTR and loads A with the data to which the resultant address points (using instruction MOVC
A,@A+DPTR). The present data in A will be the digit drive pattern for the current key press and this pattern is
put to Port 0 for display. This way the program scans for each key one by one and puts it on the display if it is
found to be pressed.
Notes.
The 5V DC power supply must be well regulated and filtered.
Column scanning is not the only method to identify the key press. You can use row scanning also. In row
scanning a particular column is kept low (other columns are kept high) and the rows are tested for low
using a suitable branching instruction. If a particular row is observed low then that means that the key
connected between that row and the corresponding column (the column that is kept low) is been pressed.
For example if column C1 is initially kept low and row R1 is observed low during scanning, that means key
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1 is pressed.
A membrane type hex keypad was used during the testing. Push button switch type and dome switch type
will also work. I havent checked other types.
The display used was a common cathode seven segment LED display with type number ELK5613A. This is
just for information and any general purpose common cathode 7 segment LED display will work here.