diff --git a/vunit/sim_if/ghdl.py b/vunit/sim_if/ghdl.py
index fb7042a04..cc9138d76 100644
--- a/vunit/sim_if/ghdl.py
+++ b/vunit/sim_if/ghdl.py
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ def determine_backend(cls, prefix):
         mapping = {
             r"mcode (JIT )?code generator": "mcode",
             r"llvm (\d+\.\d+\.\d+ )?code generator": "llvm",
+            r"static elaboration, LLVM JIT code generator": "llvm-jit",
             r"GCC (back-end|\d+\.\d+\.\d+) code generator": "gcc",
         }
         output = cls._get_version_output(prefix)