This document provides information on several microprocessor input/output (I/O) interface chips, including:
- The 8279 programmable keyboard/display interface chip that can scan and encode up to a 64-key keyboard and control up to a 16-digit display.
- The 8254 programmable interval timer chip with 3 independent 16-bit counters used for real-time events like a clock.
- The 8250/16550 universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) chip for asynchronous serial communication with features like 16-byte transmit/receive buffers.
- Details on programming and interfacing these chips, like setting control words and registers, to the microprocessor I/