This core takes as an input the red, green, and blue pixel values, like from a tiff image file, and creates the JPEG bitstream necessary to build a jpeg image. The core was written in generic, regular Verilog code that can be targeted to any FPGA. The core does not rely on any proprietary IP cores, instead all of the functions required to implement the JPEG encoder are written in Verilog and the code is entirely self-contained. This core has been simulated on many raw images with different quantization and Huffman tables.