[Discuss-gnuradio] The correlator of benchmark_rx.py looks dose not work well

[Zhonghua]

Hi everyone,
When I start to assemble 'gnuradio/examples/digital/benchmark_tx.py' and 'gnuradio/examples/digital/benchmark_rx.py', I found there is no output from the 'rx_callback' function defined in benchmark_rx.py. I inspected it further and found no message is stored in the 'framer_sink'. I got rid of the 'USPR' part from both transmitter and receiver ports, then just connect the remainder parts such as modulator,demodulator,correlator and framer_sink. There is also no any message in the framer_sink. I wrote my own  test-bench in which I made a packet with the 'packet_utils.make_packet' tool and  transmitted the packet to the modulator(blks2.mod_pkts),then connect to the demodulator('dbpsk_demod' class of dbpsk.py) and correlator (gr.correlate_access_code_bb(access_code, threshold)). I watched the input and output of the correlator and found that the correlator looks does nothing but just delays the input for 64 bits. The input and output data are as below:
input:
(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0)
The input length is 228
output:
(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0)
The output length is 228
We can see that the output of the correlator is just 64 bits delayed string of the input and there even has an error bit of '2' in the string. Because the input vector has been delayed, the original last 64 bits  are eliminated. 
As my understanding the correlator which input is 1 bit per input byte should do the access_code detection and then output a string of 2 bits per byte. The data following the access_code would be detected and so could be seen as effective data to send to the framer_sink. But my factual output of the correlator is not like that. Could anybody tell me why? My gnuradio version is gnuradio-3.3.0.

BR,
Zhonghua