Introduction Power devices play an important role in our modern world. They are used in a wide variety of applications from home electronics to industrial equipment, including such familiar items as TVs, refrigerators, PCs, FAXs, air conditioners, industrial robots, and electric vehicles. Stricter energy efficiency requirements are driving not only changes in electrical and electronics circuit design but also improvements to power devices such as power MOSFETs and IGBTs (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor). Specifically, it is desirable for power transistors to have lower power loss in their on-state and to possess a higher breakdown voltage in their off-state. The Agilent B1505A Power Device Analyzer/Curve Tracer excels at evaluating and characterizing these types of power device properties. The B1505A’s HVSMU (High Voltage Source Monitor Unit) covers up to 3000 V and the B1505A’s HCSMU (High Current Source Monitor Unit) outputs and measures up to 20 A. In addition, these modules can also perform very accurate current-voltage (IV) measurements in their high volt- age and high current ranges. Agilent EasyEXPERT software also provides an easy-to-use user interface for both instrument control and data management and analysis. For all of these reasons, the B1505A is the best choice to evaluate and analyze mod- ern state-of-the-art power devices. This application note describes how you can combine the outputs from two HCSMUs together using optional adapters to expand the current range up to 40 A. EasyEXPERT software fully supports the adapters and allows you to treat the two HCSMUs as a single 40 A unit. The expanded 40 A current range improves the utility of the B1505A by allowing it to test more state-of-the-art, low power-loss transistors used in many consumer electronic products. In addition to showing how to combine two HCSMUs together to achieve 40 A, this application note also shows actual characterization examples of power MOSFETs.