A tailpulse
signal generating / simulating apparatus,
system, and method designed to produce electronic pulses which simulate tailpulses produced by a gamma
radiation detector, including the pileup effect caused by the characteristic
exponential decay of the
detector pulses, and the random Poisson distribution pulse timing for radioactive materials. A
digital signal process (DSP) is programmed and configured to produce digital values corresponding to pseudo-randomly selected pulse amplitudes and pseudo-randomly selected Poisson timing intervals of the tailpulses. Pulse amplitude values are exponentially decayed while outputting the digital value to a
digital to analog converter (DAC). And pulse amplitudes of new pulses are added to decaying pulses to simulate the pileup effect for enhanced realism in the
simulation.