An Implementation of Trax player using programmable SoC

In this paper, we describe our implementation of Trax player on Xilinx Zynq programmable SoC for ICFPT2015 design competition. Our design uses Alpha-Beta pruning algorithm to find the best next move from the game tree. As thinking time for one turn is limited to one second by the competition rule, we also use iterative deepening algorithm and timer hardware. Evaluation function which is used for the leaf nodes of the game tree detects simple attacks, simple corners, and victory line candidates and calculates the value of the existing tiles. Hotspot software code detected by profiling is translated into HDL code using a high level synthesis tool.