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Table 9: Keypad Layout
Columns
1 2 3 4 5
1 A B C D E
Rows 2 F G H I J
3 K L M N O
4 P Q R S T
5 U V W X Y
NOTE The keypad connector must be wired with columns on one side and rows on the
other side of the center of the connector. In situations where the keypad isn’t wired this
way an adapter will need to be made, or the user should rewire the connector to meet this
requirement.
4.3 I
2
C Interface
The keypad can be read by I 2 C master read. This means that a read of the module will always return the
first unread key press. A read is initiated by writing to the module with its base address plus 1, then clocking
the module’s return byte after the module releases the SDA line. Much more detail on this basic I 2 C function
can be found in the I 2 C specification by Phillips.
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The module contains a ten key press buffer so that it can be polled for key presses at an infrequent rate
(every 500 to 1000 ms is typical). All returned key presses indicate the presence or absence of additional
logged key presses by the most significant bit (MSB - bit 7). If the user has pressed two keys since the last
poll of the keypad interface, the first read will return the key code with bit 7 set and the second read will
return the key code with bit 7 clear. The application must take into account this bit to keep up with user key
presses. If there are no keypresses detected, the module will return zero (0x00).
4.4 RS-232 Interface
By default on any press of a key, the module will immediately send out the key code at the selected baud
rate. This behavior can be modified using commands found in the next section.
4.5 Keypad Commands
Some commands, marked with an “R”, may be "Remembered" to set new defaults that will be in effect
each time the unit is powered on. When “remeber” is set / turned on, these commands are automatically
remembered to take effect each time the unit is powered on, therefore there is no need to send the save
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