As designs become more complex, the logic analyser is moving towards becoming a virtual instrument 26/06/2012 The logic analyser had a difficult birth. It only came about as a result of the struggle by Hewlett Packard to keep pace with Tektronix oscilloscopes during the early 1970s. And so dominant was the oscilloscope in design it took the logic analyser some time to be recognised as a category of instrumentation in its own right. Read Article