Connecting Yaskawa Sigma FSP Motor Drive With UMI-7774 and PCI-7344

Hi,
i have PCI-7344 and UMI-7774 that i want to connect to this Servo motor drive of Yaskawa.
1) How do i know if this motor drive is compatible with the pci-7344 and umi7774 ?
     for example: inside the UMI manual is written that the Motor drive must support "Sinusoidal Commutation"
     i look indside the Motor Drive manual and i dont found anything about this.
     this is link to the motor drive:
     http://www.yaskawa.com/site/products.nsf/products/Servo%20Amplifiers~fspsigma.html
     http://www.yaskawa.com/site/products.nsf/products/Servo%20Amplifiers~fspsigma.html?openDocument&seq=...
2) How do i connect the feedback and control lines from the UMI to the Motor drive?
i'll appreciate any help including posting a link to a tutorial that helps to understand the signals from the motor drive and the encoder
And also the umi-7344 (Phase A, Phase B, Hall sensor, inhibit, Fault, etc... )
Some powerpoint or Pdf tutorial that National instruments provide will help as well.
P.S. i read the manual of the UMI-7774 and the pci7344 manual, but i'm yet not understand what i need to do
in order to configure my motion system :
PCI-7344 , UMI-7774 , Motor Drive (Sigma FSP Yaskawa) , Servo Motor (Yaskawa)
Thanks for any help.
Regards,
Moti
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Dear Nate,
Thank you for repling to my posts, i really appreciate that.
The links you provide is very helpfull.
i'm enginner in my education, but not in this area (i'm information systems eng.)
i decided that i need to learn more about it (ni-imaq, ni-motion, line-scan camera, servo, servo drives, encoder signals, motion i/o, umi, pci7344, etc..)
So, i download the manual and help files that is needed to my application i want to build
(high speed machine vision of color line-scan camera connected to motion with rtsi synchronization and also digital i/o)
and now i'm reading ALL this, its huge amount to read, and not all the thing i understand in the begining (english is not my lang..)
Thanks again for the replies.
Best Regards,
Moti

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