Sobel Edge Detection Using HDL Codes

An Edge detection algorithm is used in Image processing in order to reduce the data to be processed. It is widely used in various real time applications such as traffic signaling, number plate detection, tumor detection etc. So to use it in real time we require hardware implementation of it. In this paper we have presented details about how to implement an Edge detection algorithm by loading an image into FPGA using HDL codes.An image is loaded into FPGA kit through few ways which is mentioned in this paper and the most effective way is utilized in the end through which there is computational ease and less memory requirement. The proposed work presents implementation of edge detection algorithm in FPGA chip named MIMAS V2 SPARTAN XC6SLX9 CSG324 FPGA that can process different grey scale image with the help of Sobel Operator.