"Wallace tree" meaning in All languages combined

See Wallace tree on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: Wallace trees [plural]
Etymology: Devised by Australian computer scientist Chris Wallace in 1964. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Wallace tree (plural Wallace trees)
  1. (computing) An efficient hardware implementation of a digital circuit that multiplies two integers.

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