Abstract: Embodiments include apparatuses, methods, and systems for testing an IC of an in-vehicle system of a CA/AD vehicle includes a storage device and processing circuitry coupled with the storage device. A gate level fault group is provided to include one or more gate level faults of a fault model associated to a gate level circuit element of the gate level netlist of the IC with substantially same fault controllability or observability characteristics. A correlated RTL fault group is determined to be associated to a RTL circuit node, where the RTL circuit node of the RTL netlist corresponds to the gate level circuit element. Other embodiments may also be described and claimed.

Abstract: A method to perform a hybrid Register Transfer Level (RTL)/gate-level (GL) fault injection simulation of a hardware design comprises generating a list of one or more fault nodes in a GL netlist for the hardware design, mapping functionally equivalent comparison points between RTL logic for the hardware design and GL netlist of the hardware design, identifying a nearest set of downstream comparison points for one or more logic paths for the one or more fault nodes, identifying a nearest set of upstream comparison points for the one or more identified downstream comparison points, replacing RTL logic with equivalent GL netlist logic to provide hybrid RTL/GL netlist in code, and performing fault injection simulating using the hybrid RTL/GL netlist code

Abstract: Embodiments include apparatuses, methods, and systems for testing an IC of an in-vehicle system of a CA/AD vehicle includes a storage device and processing circuitry coupled with the storage device. A gate level fault group is provided to include one or more gate level faults of a fault model associated to a gate level circuit element of the gate level netlist of the IC with substantially same fault controllability or observability characteristics. A correlated RTL fault group is determined to be associated to a RTL circuit node, where the RTL circuit node of the RTL netlist corresponds to the gate level circuit element. Other embodiments may also be described and claimed.