diff --git a/run_config/fvp-spm b/run_config/fvp-spm
index c84d5ea..5b607dd 100644
--- a/run_config/fvp-spm
+++ b/run_config/fvp-spm
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2020, Arm Limited. All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2020-2021, Arm Limited. All rights reserved.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
 #
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@
 post_fetch_tf_resource() {
         local model="base-aemv8a"
 
-	model="$model" arch_version="8.4" gen_model_params
+	# SPM(reference implementation of S-EL2 firmware) has SMMUv3 driver
+	# enabled to help with stage-2 translation and virtualization of
+	# upstream peripheral devices. Hence, enable the SMMUv3 IP in FVP
+	# by confuguring the appropriate parameters of the SMMUv3 AEM.
+	model="$model" arch_version="8.4" has_smmuv3_params="1" gen_model_params
+
 	model="$model" gen_fvp_yaml
 }