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12/9/2018 Intel 8255A Programmable Peripheral Interface

8255A - PROGRAMMABLE PERIPHERAL INTERFACE


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The 8255A is a general purpose programmable I/O device designed to transfer the data from I/O to interrupt
I/O under certain conditions as required. It can be used with almost any microprocessor.

It consists of three 8-bit bidirectional I/O ports 24I /Olines which can be configured as per the requirement.

Ports of 8255A
8255A has three ports, i.e., PORT A, PORT B, and PORT C.

Port A contains one 8-bit output latch/buffer and one 8-bit input buffer.

Port B is similar to PORT A.

Port C can be split into two parts, i.e. PORT C lower P C 0 − P C 3 and PORT C upper P C 7 − P C 4 by
the control word.

These three ports are further divided into two groups, i.e. Group A includes PORT A and upper PORT C.
Group B includes PORT B and lower PORT C. These two groups can be programmed in three different modes,
i.e. the first mode is named as mode 0, the second mode is named as Mode 1 and the third mode is named as
Mode 2.

Operating Modes
8255A has three different operating modes −

Mode 0 − In this mode, Port A and B is used as two 8-bit ports and Port C as two 4-bit ports. Each port
can be programmed in either input mode or output mode where outputs are latched and inputs are not
latched. Ports do not have interrupt capability.

Mode 1 − In this mode, Port A and B is used as 8-bit I/O ports. They can be configured as either input
or output ports. Each port uses three lines from port C as handshake signals. Inputs and outputs are
latched.

Mode 2 − In this mode, Port A can be configured as the bidirectional port and Port B either in Mode 0
or Mode 1. Port A uses five signals from Port C as handshake signals for data transfer. The remaining
three signals from Port C can be used either as simple I/O or as handshake for port B.

Features of 8255A
The prominent features of 8255A are as follows −

It consists of 3 8-bit IO ports i.e. PA, PB, and PC.

Address/data bus must be externally demux'd.

It is TTL compatible.

It has improved DC driving capability.

8255 Architecture
The following figure shows the architecture of 8255A −

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