International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 21, 2002 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California / With the purpose of testing the performance of GPS receivers, a GPS signal simulator is needed that can emulate the real GPS signals under all kinds of the conditions. This paper analyzes the single channel and multi-channel GPS signals’ characters in time domain and frequency domain, and discusses a mathematic model of the twelve-channel GPS simulator. In order to reduce the difficulties of the hardware design, this model is designed to provide the IF signal directly by applying the idea of “software radio”and the theory of interpolation. Simulation results with SystemView software demonstrate the feasibility of the system scheme. A practical hardware design of this system is described.