diff --git a/applications/apertif/designs/apertif_unb1_correlator/quartus/apertif_unb1_correlator_pins.tcl b/applications/apertif/designs/apertif_unb1_correlator/quartus/apertif_unb1_correlator_pins.tcl
index 7c418d6b49be53a834e545cb751f55f90443fba3..5f0a15f69c72339183c7240aecf8c7729fabc212 100644
--- a/applications/apertif/designs/apertif_unb1_correlator/quartus/apertif_unb1_correlator_pins.tcl
+++ b/applications/apertif/designs/apertif_unb1_correlator/quartus/apertif_unb1_correlator_pins.tcl
@@ -23,5 +23,5 @@ source $::env(UNB)/Firmware/designs/unb_common/src/tcl/COMMON_NODE_general_pins.
 source $::env(UNB)/Firmware/designs/unb_common/src/tcl/COMMON_NODE_other_pins.tcl
 source $::env(UNB)/Firmware/designs/unb_common/src/tcl/COMMON_NODE_1Gbe_pins.tcl
 source $::env(UNB)/Firmware/designs/unb_common/src/tcl/COMMON_NODE_sensor_pins.tcl
-#source $::env(UNB)/Firmware/designs/unb_common/src/tcl/pins_tr_front_pcs.tcl
+source $::env(UNB)/Firmware/designs/unb_common/src/tcl/pins_tr_front_pcs.tcl
 #source $::env(UNB)/Firmware/designs/unb_common/src/tcl/FRONT_NODE_mesh_nocmu_pins.tcl
diff --git a/applications/apertif/designs/apertif_unb1_correlator/src/vhdl/apertif_unb1_correlator.vhd b/applications/apertif/designs/apertif_unb1_correlator/src/vhdl/apertif_unb1_correlator.vhd
index 5ad34911879d630b2c23dbf74e9e34cb7ad6cdf8..aa1b574363c8d44153bc66dbd9bf928b24d76b95 100644
--- a/applications/apertif/designs/apertif_unb1_correlator/src/vhdl/apertif_unb1_correlator.vhd
+++ b/applications/apertif/designs/apertif_unb1_correlator/src/vhdl/apertif_unb1_correlator.vhd
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ USE bf_lib.bf_pkg.ALL;
 ENTITY apertif_unb1_correlator IS
   GENERIC (
     g_design_name             : STRING  := "apertif_unb1_correlator";
-    g_use_bg                  : BOOLEAN := TRUE; -- Overridden (TRUE) by TB but still a valid synthesis option; this replaces the 10GbE input stage with block gens.
+    g_use_bg                  : BOOLEAN := FALSE; -- Overridden (TRUE) by TB but still a valid synthesis option; this replaces the 10GbE input stage with block gens.
     g_sim                     : BOOLEAN := FALSE; -- Overridden by TB
     g_sim_fast                : BOOLEAN := TRUE; -- TRUE = fast accumulator model and no inter-channel delay in the correlator output stream.
     g_sim_unb_nr              : NATURAL := 0;
@@ -988,6 +988,7 @@ BEGIN
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   u_correlator : ENTITY correlator_lib.correlator
   GENERIC MAP (
+    g_sim                 => g_sim,
     g_nof_input_streams   => c_nof_input_streams,
     g_input_unfold_factor => c_nof_input_folds,
     g_nof_pre_mult_folds  => c_nof_pre_mult_folds,