NI-SCOPE allows you to configure the digitizer programmatically. However, the hardware may not support the exact value for some parameters that you specify. Instead of returning an error and forcing your program to be highly device specific, NI-SCOPE may coerce (or round) some input parameters to the next higher or lower value that the digitizer supports. Some of these coercions may result in incorrect behavior. In most cases, you can query the exact value of the parameter from NI-SCOPE.

Common coercions of NI-SCOPE parameters and attributes include vertical, horizontal, and trigger parameters.