SCDS019M May 1995 – December 2015 SN74CBT3251
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NOTE
Information in the following applications sections is not part of the TI component specification, and TI does not warrant its accuracy or completeness. TI’s customers are responsible for determining suitability of components for their purposes. Customers should validate and test their design implementation to confirm system functionality.
The SN74CBT351 device can be used for a wide variety of applications, including expanding MCU GPIOs.
One application of the SN74CBT3251 device is to use in conjunction with a microcontroller to poll a keypad. Figure 4 shows the basic schematic for such a polling system. The microcontroller uses the channel-select pins to cycle through the different channels while reading the input to see if a user is pressing any of the keys. This is a very robust setup that allows for simultaneous key presses with very little power consumption. It also uses very few pins on the microcontroller. The down side of polling is that the microcontroller must frequently scan the keys for a press.
These devices use CMOS technology and have balanced output drive. Take care to avoid bus contention because it can drive currents that would exceed maximum limits.