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In one embodiment, the soft decision module 402 may use soft information derived from repetitions of a message in a repetition error correcting code. For example, the soft information may include the analog information discussed above with regard to the analog information module 408. In another embodiment, the soft decision module 402 may use soft information derived from repeatedly reading the non-volatile memory media 122 using different read thresholds. For example, reading a MLC Flash memory cell multiple times using different read voltage thresholds may generate soft information about the voltage level of the cell. In light of this disclosure, many types of soft information are clear that the soft decision module 402 may use with a soft-decision decoder.

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