diff --git a/.idea/workspace.xml b/.idea/workspace.xml
index b14551f..27be9cb 100644
--- a/.idea/workspace.xml
+++ b/.idea/workspace.xml
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@
   <component name="ChangeListManager">
     <list default="true" id="1b4fd860-b9e8-491d-8907-63be57d4edbf" name="Changes" comment="">
       <change beforePath="$PROJECT_DIR$/.idea/workspace.xml" beforeDir="false" afterPath="$PROJECT_DIR$/.idea/workspace.xml" afterDir="false" />
-      <change beforePath="$PROJECT_DIR$/zigzag/classes/stages/SearchUnusedMemoryStage.py" beforeDir="false" afterPath="$PROJECT_DIR$/zigzag/classes/stages/SearchUnusedMemoryStage.py" afterDir="false" />
-      <change beforePath="$PROJECT_DIR$/zigzag/classes/stages/SpatialMappingConversionStage.py" beforeDir="false" afterPath="$PROJECT_DIR$/zigzag/classes/stages/SpatialMappingConversionStage.py" afterDir="false" />
+      <change beforePath="$PROJECT_DIR$/README.md" beforeDir="false" afterPath="$PROJECT_DIR$/README.md" afterDir="false" />
     </list>
     <option name="SHOW_DIALOG" value="false" />
     <option name="HIGHLIGHT_CONFLICTS" value="true" />
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d4b1fc8..07773cf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ To get started, you can install all packages directly through pip using the pip-
 `$ pip install -r requirements.txt`
 
 ## Getting Started
-The main script is main_onnx.py, which takes into 3 input files:
+The main script is `main_onnx.py`, which takes into 3 input files:
 - .onnx: workload definition.
 - mapping: user-provided spatial mapping or spatial mapping restriction.
 - accelerator: hardware definition.
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The repository includes three examples provided in the `run.sh` script, which ar
 
 The output will be saved under `outputs/` folder.
 
-API is also created in zigzag/api.py, which can be directly called externally.
+API is also created in `zigzag/api.py`, which can be directly called externally.
 
 **Note**: Since CACTI is not supported on Windows, please run these example on Linuxs, or else user-defined memory cost value should be provided in the input hardware file.
 
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ The current integrated IMC model has certain limitations and is applicable only
 
 
 ## Publication pointers
-- J. Sun, P. Houshmand and M. Verhelst, "Analog or Digital In-Memory Computing? Benchmarking through Quantitative Modeling," Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM Internatoinal Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), October 2023.
+- J. Sun, P. Houshmand and M. Verhelst, "Analog or Digital In-Memory Computing? Benchmarking through Quantitative Modeling," Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM Internatoinal Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), October 2023. [poster](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EVdua-y2Wg8WL-ovUIw7KUR9kpnpN4AS/view?usp=sharing), [slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19OXRDh6NCBUIOVGneO3lrZfVT58xh06U/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108247328431603587200&rtpof=true&sd=true), [video](https://drive.google.com/file/d/10-k4XEPan-O-QAH4Q0uvone36qfNRCpK/view?usp=sharing)
 
 - P. Houshmand, J. Sun and M. Verhelst, "Benchmarking and modeling of analog and digital SRAM in-memory computing architectures," arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.18335 (2023). [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18335)
 
diff --git a/zigzag/classes/stages/SpatialMappingConversionStage.py b/zigzag/classes/stages/SpatialMappingConversionStage.py
index 7d08ae4..617921e 100644
--- a/zigzag/classes/stages/SpatialMappingConversionStage.py
+++ b/zigzag/classes/stages/SpatialMappingConversionStage.py
@@ -220,21 +220,12 @@ def convert_user_spatial_mapping(self, user_spatial_mapping):
             layer=self.layer,
             accelerator=self.accelerator,
         )
-        try:
-            SpatialMapping(spatial_mapping_dict=spatial_mapping_dict, layer_node=self.layer), SpatialMapping(
-                spatial_mapping_dict=spatial_mapping_dict_int, layer_node=self.layer
-            )
-        except:
-            pass
 
-        try:
-            return SpatialMapping(
-                spatial_mapping_dict=spatial_mapping_dict, layer_node=self.layer
-            ), SpatialMapping(
-                spatial_mapping_dict=spatial_mapping_dict_int, layer_node=self.layer
-            )
-        except:
-            pass
+        return SpatialMapping(
+            spatial_mapping_dict=spatial_mapping_dict, layer_node=self.layer
+        ), SpatialMapping(
+            spatial_mapping_dict=spatial_mapping_dict_int, layer_node=self.layer
+        )
 
     def generate_limited_user_spatial_mapping(
         self,