Generally, designing in SystemC it make sense to understand which hardware will be created in ASIC/FPGA, not which SV will be generated. To assign one signal to another SC_METHOD is used in SystemC, which is normally translated into always_comb block. SC_METHOD without sensitivity is translated into assign, but right part can be a constant or literal only.
Bit operations implemented in SystemC integer types. See sc_uint/sc_biuint in IEEE 1666-2023.
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