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The unique ID number must be uploaded in the STB through a special JTAG-port.
The factory-supplier sends the Set-Top-Boxes with built-in TROPHY-ACCESS 3.0 decoder without assigned a unique ID number. By default, a FPGA chip has zero-decoder image. After prepaid the unique ID numbers must be uploaded in the Set-Top-Boxes through a special JTAG-port. Pay-TV Providers are able to choose one of two ways to initialize the decoders:
1. The decoder images are uploaded in the factory.
2. The Pay-TV provider is obliged to buy the Remote mini-server, JTAG-Programmer and scanner in the TROPHY Electronics company. Prepaid unique decoder images filled remotely from the Trophy Electronics Central server through the Remote mini-server to the Set-Top-Box which is currently connected to the Programmer.