diff --git a/src/simulator/config/EmulatorConfig.java b/src/simulator/config/EmulatorConfig.java
index dc03079..595b4c8 100755
--- a/src/simulator/config/EmulatorConfig.java
+++ b/src/simulator/config/EmulatorConfig.java
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ public class EmulatorConfig {
 	
 	public static CommunicationType communicationType;
 	public static EmulatorType emulatorType;
+	public static boolean isVISATrace;
 
 	public static int maxThreadsForTraceCollection = 1024;
 	public static boolean storeExecutionTraceInAFile;
diff --git a/src/simulator/config/SystemConfig.java b/src/simulator/config/SystemConfig.java
index adf659f..9b71056 100755
--- a/src/simulator/config/SystemConfig.java
+++ b/src/simulator/config/SystemConfig.java
@@ -31,8 +31,13 @@ public class SystemConfig
 		Bus, Noc
 	}
 
+	public static  int NUM_BENCHMARKS;
+
 	public static int NoOfCores;
 	
+	public static  String benchmarknames[]; // Number of benchmarks
+	public static String numCountThreads[];
+	
 	public static int maxNumJavaThreads;
 	public static int numEmuThreadsPerJavaThread;	
 	
diff --git a/src/simulator/config/XMLParser.java b/src/simulator/config/XMLParser.java
index f612033..aae6f3e 100755
--- a/src/simulator/config/XMLParser.java
+++ b/src/simulator/config/XMLParser.java
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ public class XMLParser
 			createSharedCacheConfigs();
 			setSimulationParameters();
 			setEmulatorParameters();
-			
+			setBenchmarks();
 			setSystemParameters();
 			
 			FrequencyConfig.setupStepSizes();
@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ public class XMLParser
 		
 		EmulatorConfig.emulatorType = getEmulatorType(getImmediateString("EmulatorType", emulatorElmnt));
 		EmulatorConfig.communicationType = getCommunicationType(getImmediateString("CommunicationType", emulatorElmnt));
+		EmulatorConfig.isVISATrace = Boolean.parseBoolean(getImmediateString("isVISATrace", emulatorElmnt));
 				
 		EmulatorConfig.PinTool = getImmediateString("PinTool", emulatorElmnt);
 		EmulatorConfig.PinInstrumentor = getImmediateString("PinInstrumentor", emulatorElmnt);
@@ -1124,6 +1125,25 @@ public class XMLParser
 	    return ((Node) resultNode.item(0)).getNodeValue();
 	}
 	
+
+	private static void setBenchmarks() // Get the immediate string value of a particular tag name under a particular parent tag
+	{	
+	 NodeList nodeLst = doc.getElementsByTagName("Benchmark");
+	  SystemConfig.NUM_BENCHMARKS=nodeLst.getLength();
+	  SystemConfig.benchmarknames=new String[SystemConfig.NUM_BENCHMARKS];
+	  SystemConfig.numCountThreads=new String[SystemConfig.NUM_BENCHMARKS];
+	
+		for(int i=0; i< nodeLst.getLength();i++){
+			Node node = nodeLst.item(i);
+			 System.out.println("");    
+			 if (node.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE)
+			 {  Element eElement = (Element) node;
+			    SystemConfig.benchmarknames[i]=eElement.getElementsByTagName("BenchmarkPath").item(0).getTextContent();
+			    SystemConfig.numCountThreads[i]=eElement.getElementsByTagName("Threads").item(0).getTextContent();
+			 }
+		}
+	}
+	
 	private static PortType setPortType(String inputStr)
 	{
 		PortType result = null;
diff --git a/src/simulator/config/config.xml b/src/simulator/config/config.xml
index 376f77c..8e65add 100755
--- a/src/simulator/config/config.xml
+++ b/src/simulator/config/config.xml
@@ -31,12 +31,13 @@ TDP = 15W
 		<!--Currently we support following (emulator,communication) combinations : -->
 		<!--(pin, sharedMemory), (qemu, sharedMemory), (qemu, network), (none, file)-->
 		<!--(pin,file) combination can be used to collect execution trace of an application in a compressed file-->
-		<EmulatorType>pin</EmulatorType> <!--pin,qemu-->
+		<EmulatorType>none</EmulatorType> <!--pin,qemu-->
 		
 		<!--NOTE only file interface supports the execution of multiple benchmarks inside tejas-->
 		<!--if you are reading the packets from a file, the emulator must be set to none-->
 		<!--multiple benchmarks are specified using arguments to the simulator-->
-		<CommunicationType>sharedMemory</CommunicationType>  <!--file,sharedMemory,network-->
+		<CommunicationType>file</CommunicationType>  <!--file,sharedMemory,network-->
+		<isVISATrace>false</isVISATrace> <!-- If communication type is file, is it a VISA trace? -->
 		
 		<!--We can use tejas as an interface to create a compressed (gzip) trace file using the emulator-->
 		<!--Set this option to true if you want to create a trace file of the benchmark execution-->
@@ -84,6 +85,13 @@ TDP = 15W
 		<endSimMarker>sub</endSimMarker>
 		<NumCores>2</NumCores>
 	</Simulation>
+	
+	<Applications>			<!-- Applications (traces) to run -->
+	    <Benchmark>
+			<BenchmarkPath>/store/Documents/B_Tech/Semester_7/ACA/Tejas-Dh/traces/qemuTrace/7zip</BenchmarkPath>	<!-- Path to the benchmark traces -->
+			<Threads>2</Threads>		<!-- Number of threads for the trace -->
+		</Benchmark>
+   	</Applications>
 
 	<!--System Parameters-->
 	<System>
@@ -477,7 +485,7 @@ TDP = 15W
 		<Interconnect>NOC</Interconnect>
 		
 		<NOC>
-			<NocConfigFile>/nfs_home/rajshekar/resources/tejas_configs/config_2core_kabylake_NocConfig.txt</NocConfigFile>
+			<NocConfigFile>/store/Documents/B_Tech/Semester_7/ACA/Assignments/Assignment_4/NocConfig.txt</NocConfigFile>
 			<NocSelScheme>STATIC</NocSelScheme>
 			<NocNumberOfBuffers>4</NocNumberOfBuffers>
 			<NocPortType>FCFS</NocPortType>
diff --git a/src/simulator/emulatorinterface/RunnableThread.java b/src/simulator/emulatorinterface/RunnableThread.java
index c8bd576..8869ac7 100755
--- a/src/simulator/emulatorinterface/RunnableThread.java
+++ b/src/simulator/emulatorinterface/RunnableThread.java
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ public class RunnableThread implements Encoding, Runnable {
 	public void run() {
 
 		if (EmulatorConfig.emulatorType == EmulatorType.none
-				&& EmulatorConfig.communicationType == CommunicationType.file) {
+				&& EmulatorConfig.communicationType == CommunicationType.file && EmulatorConfig.isVISATrace) {
 			//trace-file based simulation
 
 //			for(int core = 0; core < maxCoreAssign; core++)
diff --git a/src/simulator/emulatorinterface/communication/filePacket/FilePacket.java b/src/simulator/emulatorinterface/communication/filePacket/FilePacket.java
index 67c09e7..6378c3e 100755
--- a/src/simulator/emulatorinterface/communication/filePacket/FilePacket.java
+++ b/src/simulator/emulatorinterface/communication/filePacket/FilePacket.java
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ public class FilePacket extends IpcBase implements Encoding {
 	ArrayList<Integer> pinpointWeights;
 	int cur_slice = 0;
 	String []basenameForBenchmarks;
+	int count[]=new int[SystemConfig.NUM_BENCHMARKS];
 	
 	public FilePacket(String []basenameForBenchmarks) {
-		/*
 		this.maxApplicationThreads = SystemConfig.maxNumJavaThreads*SystemConfig.numEmuThreadsPerJavaThread;
 		this.basenameForBenchmarks = basenameForBenchmarks;
 		
@@ -60,10 +60,14 @@ public class FilePacket extends IpcBase implements Encoding {
 				misc.Error.showErrorAndExit(e.getMessage());
 			}
 		}
+	
+		for(int i=0;i< SystemConfig.NUM_BENCHMARKS;i++){
+			count[i]=Integer.parseInt(SystemConfig.numCountThreads[i]);
+		}
 		
 		int numTotalThreads = 0;
 		for (int benchmark=0; benchmark<basenameForBenchmarks.length; benchmark++) {
-			for (int tid=0; ;tid++) {
+			for (int tid=0;tid<count[benchmark];tid++) {
 				String inputFileName;
 				if(SimulationConfig.pinpointsSimulation == false)
 				{
@@ -96,7 +100,6 @@ public class FilePacket extends IpcBase implements Encoding {
 				}
 			}
 		}
-		*/
 	}
 
 	public void initIpc() {
@@ -104,7 +107,7 @@ public class FilePacket extends IpcBase implements Encoding {
 	}
 
 	public int fetchManyPackets(int tidApp, CircularPacketQueue fromEmulator) {
-		/*
+
 		if(tidApp>=maxApplicationThreads) {
 			misc.Error.showErrorAndExit("FilePacket cannot handle tid = " + tidApp);
 		}
@@ -206,8 +209,6 @@ public class FilePacket extends IpcBase implements Encoding {
 		}
 		
 		return maxSize;
-		*/
-		return 0;
 	}
 
 	public void errorCheck(int tidApp, long totalReads) {
diff --git a/src/simulator/emulatorinterface/translator/x86/instruction/InstructionClassTable.java b/src/simulator/emulatorinterface/translator/x86/instruction/InstructionClassTable.java
index c2e88bf..bfa13fb 100755
--- a/src/simulator/emulatorinterface/translator/x86/instruction/InstructionClassTable.java
+++ b/src/simulator/emulatorinterface/translator/x86/instruction/InstructionClassTable.java
@@ -857,7 +857,7 @@ public class InstructionClassTable {
 
 		//unhandled x86 instruction type
 		if(instructionClass == null && operation.compareTo("ud2") != 0)
-			System.out.println(operation);
+			System.out.println("[x86 Translator] Unhandled instruction type encountered: " +operation);
 		
 		if (instructionClass == null)
 			return InstructionClass.INVALID;
diff --git a/src/simulator/emulatorinterface/translator/x86/objparser/ObjParser.java b/src/simulator/emulatorinterface/translator/x86/objparser/ObjParser.java
index 438be78..9f11cde 100755
--- a/src/simulator/emulatorinterface/translator/x86/objparser/ObjParser.java
+++ b/src/simulator/emulatorinterface/translator/x86/objparser/ObjParser.java
@@ -529,8 +529,15 @@ public class ObjParser
 			assemblyTokens[0] = str;
 			currentPointer = indexOf(asmBytes, ' ', previousPointer, 64);
 			
-			assemblyTokens[1] = new String(asmBytes, previousPointer, (currentPointer-previousPointer));
-			currentPointer++; previousPointer = currentPointer;
+			if(currentPointer==-1) {
+				assemblyTokens[1] = new String(asmBytes, previousPointer, len(asmBytes)-previousPointer);	// only operation field is present
+				assemblyTokens[2] = assemblyTokens[3] = assemblyTokens[4] = null;
+				return assemblyTokens;
+			}
+			else {
+				assemblyTokens[1] = new String(asmBytes, previousPointer, (currentPointer-previousPointer));
+				currentPointer++; previousPointer = currentPointer;
+			}
 		} else {
 			assemblyTokens[0] = null;
 			assemblyTokens[1] = str;
diff --git a/src/simulator/main/Main.java b/src/simulator/main/Main.java
index cffece7..dad58ca 100755
--- a/src/simulator/main/Main.java
+++ b/src/simulator/main/Main.java
@@ -92,7 +92,20 @@ public class Main {
 		} /*else if(EmulatorConfig.emulatorType==EmulatorType.none) {
 			ObjParser.initializeThreadMicroOpsList(SystemConfig.numEmuThreadsPerJavaThread);
 		}*/
+		else{
+			executableAndArguments = new String[SystemConfig.NUM_BENCHMARKS];
+		 
+			for(int i=0;i<SystemConfig.NUM_BENCHMARKS;i++){
+				executableAndArguments[i]=SystemConfig.benchmarknames[i];
+			}
+
+			for(int i=2; i < arguments.length; i++) {
+				executableAndArguments[i-2] = arguments[i]; 
+		 		benchmarkArguments = benchmarkArguments + " " + arguments[i];
+			}
+		}
 		
+		ObjParser.initializeThreadMicroOpsList(SystemConfig.numEmuThreadsPerJavaThread);
 		ObjParser.initializeDynamicInstructionBuffer(SystemConfig.numEmuThreadsPerJavaThread*SystemConfig.numEmuThreadsPerJavaThread);
 		ObjParser.initializeControlMicroOps();