A VLSI architecture for forward/inverse 2D discrete wavelet transform in realtime applications is presented in this paper. It is designed and verified by the hardware descirption language (VHDL)and is suitable for the hardware implementation. The VHDL of our architecture is synthesized by the Synopsys synthesizer. The synthesized circuits contain 7140 area. The results show that the speed of data processing can reach about 4M pixel/s.