A signal simulation device for testing and developing radio receivers
adapted to orientate antenna beams to different radio transmitters and to
simultaneously suppress interference signals, comprises an antenna array,
a signal generator generating reproducible digital signals in the complex
baseband, and a digital matrix processor combined and synchronized with
the signal generator. The processor has input signals generated by the
signal generator and has output signals that form received signals of the
antenna array. The input signals of the matrix processor are phase
shifted according to a direction of incidence and to relative positions
of the elements within the antenna array of the radio receiver, and are
combined and supplied to outputs of the matrix processor. Amplitude and
phase shift are simulated by weighting of the input signals from the
signal generator, the weighting coefficients being calculated on a
control computer and input into the matrix processor via an interface.