Agilent Technologies is the actual descendant of the instrument company founded by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in 1939. After 60 years of existence as part of Hewlett-Packard it was spun off from HP in 1999. Agilent is an $8 billion company with about 30,000 employees, manufacturing scientific instruments, semiconductors, and test equipment for telecom and wireless R&D and production.
Significant Agilent test & measurement product categories include:
- oscilloscopes
- logic analyzers
- combined integrated versions of the above, originally designed for debugging and testing microcontroller systems