diff --git a/applications/lofar2/libraries/sdp/src/vhdl/sdp_beamformer_output.vhd b/applications/lofar2/libraries/sdp/src/vhdl/sdp_beamformer_output.vhd
index b14d63d3cc046861baef44eebfb98dce5ab46a48..a3aae746b9805eaa40045e50701aea0386337e6d 100644
--- a/applications/lofar2/libraries/sdp/src/vhdl/sdp_beamformer_output.vhd
+++ b/applications/lofar2/libraries/sdp/src/vhdl/sdp_beamformer_output.vhd
@@ -292,7 +292,8 @@ BEGIN
     g_data_w        => c_longword_w,
     g_symbol_w      => c_byte_w,
     g_hdr_field_arr => c_sdp_cep_hdr_field_arr,
-    g_hdr_field_sel => c_sdp_cep_hdr_field_sel
+    g_hdr_field_sel => c_sdp_cep_hdr_field_sel,
+    g_pipeline_ready => TRUE
   )
   PORT MAP (
     mm_rst                => mm_rst,