1. Term Project: Poker Game
Introduction to Digital System and Microprocessor Design
DICE Lab. Creative IT Engineering
May 2, 2017
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2. Simple Poker Game Simple Poker Game
Card (No information of suit)
4 Same Cards for each number
Poker Hand Ranking (6 kinds)
One Pair, Two Pair, Three of a kind, Straight, Full House, Four of a kind
2 individual cards & 3 common cards
Using I/O : Button Switch, Bus Switch, LED, 7-Segment
Games with computer on 1 FPGA Board
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3. Game Rule Game Rule Push ‘RESET’ button
Open 7 cards by pushing ‘DEBUG OPEN’ or ‘RANDOM OPEN’ button
Open one card by push one button
Judge the game by pushing ‘JUDGE’ button
Show only the winner’s cards
DRAW case: show all the players’ cards
If push ‘OPPONENT’S STATUS’ button, show opponent’s poker hand ranking.
Case: 2 card for user, 3 card for common, 1 card for opponent are opened
Show the status of poker hand ranking with 4 cards for opponent
Poker Hand Ranking
Four of a kind : 4 cards have same number
Full house : 3 cards have same number & the other 2 cards have same number
Straight : 5 cards have consecutive number (A can be 1 or 14)
Three of a kind : 3 cards have same number
Two Pair : 2 cards have same number & other 2 cards have same number
One Pair : 2 cards have same number
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4. Design Rule Design Rule Use 5 Button switches Use Bus switches
Reset button
Random open button for playing with random cards from deck
Debug open button for playing with specific cards which can be chosen by bus switch
Judge button for judging the game after opening all the cards
Opponent’s status button for showing the opponent’s status in that situation
Use Bus switches
Handle the bus switches and push debug open button
Use 6 LEDs
6 LEDs can show 6 Poker Hand Ranking
One Pair, Two Pair, Three of a kind, Straight, Full House, Four of a kind
Use 7 7-segments
2 for your own individual cards
3 for common cards
2 for opponent’s individual cards
The number of card representing one number cannot be more 4.
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5. 7-segment representation
Card
7-Segment A 8 2 9 3 10 4 J 5 Q 6 K 7
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6. I/O Mapping 6/8 7-Segment : 7 Cards from deck LEDs :
Poker Hand Ranking
Bus Switch:
Choosing card number in debug mode
Button Switch:
Many buttons explained
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