Input key device for electronic calculators, particularly microcomputers, for entering instructions and/or sequential instructions

摘要

1. A push-button input device for electronic computers, in particular microcomputers, for the input of commands and/or command sequences, in which keyboard the individual push-buttons are each assigned individual commands or command sequences and each push-button is equipped with a generator which signals its push-button code and with a generator which signals its actuation, where the individual generators which signal actuation are continuously scanned in cyclic fashion, where all the push-buttons are assigned at least one common interrupt plane of the relevant computer, where the individual generators which signal the actuation of a push-button each act upon an interrupt input (11) of a processor (7) of the computer, where the individual push-button codes are each supplied in coded form - preferably in a system-compatible code - via n data lines of an input port (5) to a system data bus (2) of the computer, and where the push-button code (1) of the push-button which results in an interrupt (13) is interrogated by the processor (7) via the input port (5), characterized in - that a multiplier (6) is provided, with the aid of which a processor data bus (4), which is connected to the processor (7), can be switched over for each case in turn from the system data bus (2) and output lines of the input port (5) to lines which transmit a restart command (3), whenever the processor is ready for the interrupt processing, - that the multiplexer (6) is connected by a control input to the output of an AND-gate (12), and - that the multiplexer (6) effects a switch-over whenever the inputs of the AND-gate (12) are supplied with a signal, required for the switch-over, from a status decoder (8) via an interrupt acknowledgement line (9) and are supplied with a signal, required for switch-over, on the data bus input signal line (10) from the processor (7), that the relevant restart-command (3) is produced in the multiplexer (6), and - that one single restart-command (3) is provided so that only one single interrupt plane is to be operated, and - that this single restart-command (3) is permanently set in the multiplexer (6).