diff --git a/counters/neoverse_v1_core.h b/counters/neoverse_v1_core.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5706dfa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/counters/neoverse_v1_core.h
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+#define NUM_COUNTERS 2
+#define MAX_GROUPS 14
+
+struct eventStruct {
+                      char * name;
+                      char * label;
+                   };
+
+struct groupStruct {
+                      struct eventStruct event[NUM_COUNTERS];
+                   };
+
+
+struct groupStruct CounterGroup[] =
+{
+  { // Group 1
+  "PAPI_L1_DCM",   "Level 1 data cache misses",
+  "PAPI_L1_ICM",   "Level 1 instruction cache misses",
+  },{ // Group 2
+  "PAPI_L2_DCM",   "Level 2 data cache misses",
+  "PAPI_TLB_DM",   "Data translation lookaside buffer misses",
+  },{ // Group 3
+  "PAPI_L2_LDM",   "Level 2 load misses",
+  "PAPI_STL_ICY",  "Cycles with no instruction issue",
+  },{ // Group 4
+  "PAPI_HW_INT",  "Hardware interrupts",
+  "PAPI_BR_MSP",   "Conditional branch instructions mispredicted",
+  },{ // Group 5
+  "PAPI_BR_PRC",  "Conditional branch instructions correctly predicted",
+  "PAPI_TOT_INS",   "Instructions completed",
+  },{ // Group 6
+  "PAPI_FP_INS",   "Floating point instructions",
+  "PAPI_LD_INS",   "Load instructions",
+  },{ // Group 7
+  "PAPI_SR_INS",   "Store instructions",
+  "PAPI_BR_INS",   "Branch instructions",
+  },{ // Group 8
+  "PAPI_VEC_INS",  "Vector/SIMD instructions (could include integer)",
+  "PAPI_RES_STL",   "Cycles stalled on any resource",
+  },{ // Group 9
+  "PAPI_TOT_CYC",   "Total cycles",
+  "PAPI_LST_INS",  "Load/store instructions completed",
+  },{ // Group 10
+  "PAPI_SYC_INS",  "Synchronization instructions completed",
+  "PAPI_L1_DCA",   "Level 1 data cache accesses",
+  },{ // Group 11
+  "PAPI_L2_DCA",  "Level 2 data cache accesses",
+  "PAPI_L1_DCR",   "Level 1 data cache reads",
+  },{ // Group 12
+  "PAPI_L2_DCR",   "Level 2 data cache reads",
+  "PAPI_L1_DCW",   "Level 1 data cache writes",
+  },{ // Group 13
+  "PAPI_L2_DCW",   "Level 2 data cache writes",
+  "PAPI_L1_ICH",  "Level 1 instruction cache hits",
+  },{ // Group 14
+  "PAPI_L1_ICA",   "Level 1 instruction cache accesses",
+  "PAPI_L2_TCA",   "Level 2 total cache accesses",
+  }
+};
diff --git a/src/configure b/src/configure
index 08a7943..afecb70 100755
--- a/src/configure
+++ b/src/configure
@@ -306,8 +306,14 @@ if [ $hpm_flag == 1 ]; then
      if [ $counter_type != core ]; then
        echo "for arch = aarch64, only core counters are currently supported"
      fi
-     ln -sf ../counters/thunderx2_core.h counters.h
-     echo "setting link : ln -sf ../counters/thunderx2_core.h counters.h"
+     model_string=$(papi_avail  | grep 'Model string' | sed 's/.*: //' | sed 's/ [(].*//')
+     if [ "$model_string" = "Arm Neoverse V1" ]; then
+       ln -sf ../counters/neoverse_v1_core.h counters.h
+       echo "setting link : ln -sf ../counters/neoverse_v1_core.h counters.h"
+     else
+       ln -sf ../counters/thunderx2_core.h counters.h
+       echo "setting link : ln -sf ../counters/thunderx2_core.h counters.h"
+     fi
      ;;
   esac