Concept and usage of “this” is simple but important in test bench development using system verilog. I would like to share some insights on this concept.
The this keyword is an implicit argument to a method that refers to the current object.
Let’s understand this concept with the following example.
class concept_this ;
int a ;
function new (int a);
this.a = a;
endfunction : new
endclass
program main;
concept_this obj_th = new (777);
initial begin
$display ("obj_th.a = %d", obj_th.a);
end
endprogram
In above example we can see that ‘a’ is a property of class “concept_this”. When we initialize the memory for class, we have passed an integer value ‘777’ to its class constructor i.e. function new(). The variable ‘a’ is local to class instance “obj_th and is now 777 as we have passed this from it’s class constructor.
