C++ Language Fundamentals

Length: 3 days

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Course Description

This course provides an introduction to the C++ programming language for those who use C++ for design or verification.

To optimally benefit from this course, you must already have sufficient knowledge of the C programming language to be capable of writing non-trivial C programs.

In this course, you write and execute C++ code that includes C++ classes, member variables and functions, constructors, destructors, inheritance, and polymorphism.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Write and execute a simple C program
• Organize your programming solution in terms of objects and their interactions
• Write and execute a simple C++ program with classes and objects
• Define class constructors to initialize class variables during object construction
• Define class destructors to return unneeded memory to the heap
• Define aliases for variables by defining reference variables
• Achieve the best compromise between program reliability and runtime performance by appropriately choosing function argument passing by value, pointer, or reference
• Simplify the application interface to the class by defining overloaded functions
• Define data common to all objects of a class by defining static members
• Describe and explain implicit type conversions automatically done by the compiler
• Utilize an expression as something other than its natural type by explicitly converting its type
• Provide an intuitive interface to class operations by defining overloaded operators
• Define a class based on an existing class definition that inherits all members of the base class and optionally declares additional members
• Defer function call name binding until run time by declaring functions with the virtual specifier
• Define an interface common to multiple classes by defining pure virtual functions
• Declare class variables whose values cannot be changed by declaring the variables with the const qualifier
• Enable calling member functions of a const class object by declaring the functions with the const qualifier
• Remove the “constness” of pointers and references by performing a const_cast operation
• Define generic code to be specialized upon each use by defining function templates and class templates
• Program graceful handling of “exceptional” conditions
• Input and output data to and from programs
• Diagnose incorrect program behavior
• Store and manipulate data by using standard containers and standard algorithms

Software Used in This Course

• X300 Xcelium Single Core Simulator

Software Release(s)

XCELIUM2103

Modules in this Course

• Object-Oriented Programming and C++
• C++ Basics
• Constructors and Destructors
• References
• Functions
• Type Conversion
• Operator Overloading
• Inheritance
• Polymorphism
• Constant Objects and Constant Functions
• Templates
• Exceptions
• Input and Output
• Debugging
• Containers and Algorithms

Audience

• Design Engineers
• System Engineers
• Verification Engineers

Prerequisites

You must have experience with or knowledge of the following:

• The C programming language

Related Courses

• SystemC Language Fundamentals
• SystemC Transaction-Level Modeling (TLM 2.0)
• SystemC Synthesis with Stratus HLS

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