Institue of Technology,

Image processing (I.P.) systems, involving multiple processing functionalities, use standard software tools to manipulate pixel values. The load on the system is high when these software tools are used for real time I.P. applications as the system they are running on are systems that are not specific to a particular application. This would require either high end hardware systems or an application specific hardware. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) provide a cost effective custmizable solution. The Command Controlled Image Processor proposed in this paper provides a specific hardware based solution which is designed only for certain specific image processing tasks. This paper deals with the design and implementation of a multifunction processor with different modules using a FPGA. The design has been prototyped on a Xilinx Spartan 3E FPGA. The expected and achieved outputs have been given with comparison to standard MATLAB outputs. The hardware occupancies and delays have also been reported for different FPGA devices