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8255A - Programmable Peripheral Interface

The 8255A is a programmable I/O device with three 8-bit ports (A, B, and C) that can be configured for input or output in different modes to transfer data between peripherals and a microprocessor. It has three operating modes: mode 0 uses ports A and B as 8-bit ports and port C as two 4-bit ports without interrupts; mode 1 uses ports A and B as 8-bit I/O ports with handshake signals from port C; mode 2 can use port A bidirectionally and port B in mode 0 or 1, with handshake signals from port C.

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8255A - Programmable Peripheral Interface

The 8255A is a programmable I/O device with three 8-bit ports (A, B, and C) that can be configured for input or output in different modes to transfer data between peripherals and a microprocessor. It has three operating modes: mode 0 uses ports A and B as 8-bit ports and port C as two 4-bit ports without interrupts; mode 1 uses ports A and B as 8-bit I/O ports with handshake signals from port C; mode 2 can use port A bidirectionally and port B in mode 0 or 1, with handshake signals from port C.

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11/26/22, 2:49 PM 8255A - Programmable Peripheral Interface

8255A - Programmable Peripheral Interface

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/O lines) 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 (PC0-PC3) and PORT C upper (PC7-
PC4) 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.

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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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