Shift registers and keyboard interfacing

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Charl

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Hello folks,

I'm working on interfacing one of those small numeric keypads which
are used for laptops. I'm using two 74164 shift registers, of which at
the moment I only have one connected.

It seems to be working properly, I'm getting the lower part of the
byte, parity and stop bit. But whenever I press a key, I see the LEDs
which I have connected to Q0~Q7 flicker quite a lot (the ones that are
on don't flicker; the ones that are off do). I think that this is a
little strange since according to Beyondlogic.org the CLK signal
should be around 20 KHz.

The flicker means that I will only be able to press a key every half a
second (since that's how long the flicker lasts).

Does anyone have a solution for this?

Regards,
Charl
 

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