4 by 4 Keypad

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brent4669

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Hi

I am having trouble designing a 4 by 4 key pad circuit with an 8 bit output. I am using a straight ring counter as the shift register and either a 74LS273 or 74C922 latch for the outputs. I am having trouble connecting my logic gates (andor) to the columns for the key press detect. Any help would be grateful even just a point in the right direction.

Thanks
 
I put together a 4X4 keypad encoder not to long ago. Here is how I did it...
 

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Manners are nice, have you heard of them. In case you didnt read the post properly I didnt mention anything about Pic/Microcontrollers
 
Mike used a uC, the OP doesnt want to use one and is therefore rudely saying that Mike has no manners because he showed the OP a diagram using a uC
 
How would you interpret the data without one?

With the solution I gave you could have either serial or parallel output.
 
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ParkingLotLust said:
Mike used a uC, the OP doesnt want to use one and is therefore rudely saying that Mike has no manners because he showed the OP a diagram using a uC
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It's a 4X4 matrix decoder chip. There is no uC involved with that project. You could feed the serial data into a uC or have parallel output.
 
brent4669 is clearly the one lacking in manners.

Where did you get that nice keypad, Mike?
 
Used to be, those keypads were about $5.00, until they realized everyone with a micro controller would be buying one, or two.
 
$12 is a GREAT deal as far as I'm concerned. Digikey's least expensive 4x4 keypad is $13.66 and NONE of them have the right legend - alphanumerics for hex entry, arrow keys for the cursor (I use multline LCDs with menus), clear, entry, and even a damn "Help" button! (I include "help" files on my test fixtures so the techs won't bug me so much)

Mike, this is BEAUTIFUL!
 
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