Hi,
I'm trying to get a bit of an understanding of how the HSM is used in real world environments. The documentation I've found so far suggests that once the maximum number of installs for a card has been reached, the card is essentially dead and a new card would be needed for additional installs. This leaves me with a number of questions:
1) If we were using an STM32HSM-V2AE card which supports 25 licenses, is it possible to limit the number of initial installations to fewer than 25 licenses if we only want an initial batch of 5 STM32 microcontrollers programmed?
2) With the same STM32HSM-V2AE (assuming the answer to Q1 is 'yes'), could we initially configure it for 5 installations, send that out to the 3rd party to perform the installations, get the card back and then configure it for the remaining 20 installations and send it back to the 3rd party to perform the additional 20 installations?
2b) If question 2 is 'yes', can the additional licenses be for the SFI of a different product entirely, or does each card get 'tied' to a single installation image?
3) Assuming the answers to 1 and 2 are 'yes', is it possible after those 25 installations have been performed to configure the STM32HSM-V2AE for an additional 25 installs? Is the limit effectively the maximum number of licenses the card holds at any point in time, or the total it can manage ever in its lifetime?
Thank you for your time, I've really struggled to find clear information on this subject anywhere else.
