A real time imaging system includes a programmable detector framing node controlling
generation of radiation and controlling radioscopic image detection. Radioscopic
image data is acquired and communicated by the detector framing node independently
of a host computer operating system. The detector framing node controls events
in real time according to an event instruction sequence and communicates the received
radioscopic image data to host memory through a computer communication bus. The
image data is received from a selected flat panel detector of a plurality of different
flat panel detectors. The detector framing node is programmable by way of a pair
of JTAG loops. The JTAG loops receive programming instructions from the host computer
and from a pair of JTAG ports.
