diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 03d7cd9..e69de29 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "caravel1"]
-	path = caravel
-	url = https://github.com/efabless/caravel-lite.git
diff --git a/caravel b/caravel
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index c294344..0000000
--- a/caravel
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit c2943440e278814787f761585b99b9ea3c1f4121