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= Soft-decision decoder
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A soft-decision decoder is a type of decoder used in communication systems and coding theory that processes signals with more information than simple binary values. In contrast to hard-decision decoding, which makes binary decisions (typically 0 or 1) based solely on whether a signal surpasses a certain threshold, soft-decision decoding considers the reliability of the received signals.