Panasonic Motor usable with NI stepper controller?

Dear All,
Kindly if you may advise if followings can be used with NI STEPPER (non-servo) motion controller
Panasonic Motor MSMA042A1H
Panasonic Motor MSMA042A1G(with break)
Panasonic Driver (Amplifier) MSDA043A1A
It takes DIR / STEP pulsing signal inputs (or CW /CCW)
Many thanks in advance

John,
I tried calling Panasonic. The guy on the phone gave me an email address. I don't have a contact for the Industrial division of Panasonic.
Like I said before, most likely our drives will work with your motor because we do support Step and Direction inputs. Our boards also support CW/CCW input also.
Lorne Hengst
Application Engineer
National Instruments

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