
© National Instruments Corporation 61 NI cDAQ-9172 User Guide and Specifications
on each rising edge of a filter clock. The NI cDAQ-9172 chassis uses an 
onboard oscillator to generate the filter clock with a 40 MHz frequency. 
For more information, refer to the NI-DAQmx Help. The NI-DAQmx Help 
is available after installation from Start»Programs»National 
Instruments»NI-DAQ»NI-DAQmx Help.
Note NI-DAQmx only supports filters on counter inputs.
The following is an example of low to high transitions of the input signal. 
High to low transitions work similarly.
Assume that an input terminal has been low for a long time. The input 
terminal then changes from low to high, but glitches several times. When 
the filter clock samples the signal high on N consecutive edges, the low to 
high transition is propagated to the rest of the circuit. The value of N 
depends on the filter setting, as listed in Table7.
You can configure the filter setting for each input independently. On power 
up, the filters are disabled. Figure41 shows an example of a low to high 
transition on an input with its filter set to 125 ns (N = 5).
Figure 41.  Filter Example
Enabling filters introduces jitter on the input signal. For the 125 ns and 
6.425 µs filter settings, the jitter is up to 25n s. On the 2.56 ms setting, the 
jitter is up to 10.025 µs.
Table 7.  Counter Input Filters
Filter Setting
N (Filter Clocks 
Needed to 
PassSignal)
Pulse Width 
Guaranteed to 
PassF ilter
Pulse Width 
Guaranteed to 
NotPass Filt er
125 ns 5125 ns 100 ns
6.425 µs 257 6.425 µs 6.400 µs
2.56 ms ~101,800 2.56 ms 2.54 ms
Disabled — — —
1 2 3 1  4  1 2 3 4 5 
PFI Terminal
Filter Clock 
(40 MHz) 
Filtered Input 
Filtered input goes high 
when terminal is sampled
high on five consecutive 
filter clocks.