A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...

Object Oriented Programming was introduced to software development almost half a century ago but should it be banished from embedded, safety-critical development? Object Oriented Programming (OOP) was ...

This is the second part in a series of introductory articles on SystemVerilog (SV) object oriented programming (OOP). In the first article, we covered the basics of the class data type and the history ...

One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a ...