System, apparatus, method and computer program for producing signals for testing radio frequency communication devices

An apparatus for producing signals for testing radio frequency communication devices, comprising:

• a data generator for supplying a temporally discontinuous data stream including:
• signal waveform data;
• and
• control data defining characteristics of a conversion from the signal waveform data into a radio frequency test signal.

A method of producing radio frequency signals for testing radio frequency communication devices, comprising:

• supplying a temporally discontinuous data stream including signal waveform data and control data defining characteristics of a conversion from the signal waveform data into a radio frequency test signal;
• transforming the temporally discontinuous data stream into a temporally continuous data stream;
• and
• performing the conversion from the signal waveform data into the radio frequency test signal according to the control data by using at least a portion of the temporally continuous data stream as input.

A computer program embodied on a computer readable medium, for executing a computer process for producing radio frequency signals for testing a radio frequency communication device, the computer process including steps, the steps comprising:

• supplying a temporally discontinuous data stream including signal waveform data and control data defining characteristics of a conversion from the signal waveform data into a radio frequency test signal;
• controlling a process of transforming the temporally discontinuous data stream into a temporally continuous data stream;
• and
• controlling a process of converting the signal waveform data into the radio frequency test signal according to the control data by using at least a portion of the temporally continuous signal data stream as input.