Agilent Technologies Incorporated
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