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+[submodule "tools/chipkit_flow"]
+	path = tools/chipkit_flow
+	url = https://git.soton.ac.uk/soclabs/chipkit_flow.git
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+Subproject commit 672416929813708f48e5376c8de00a4f7a69aa9a