diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index e69de29..03d7cd9 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
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+[submodule "caravel1"]
+	path = caravel
+	url = https://github.com/efabless/caravel-lite.git
diff --git a/caravel b/caravel
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..ff960da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/caravel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit ff960da6e06dd9097e7e1152e90f5998235a7882