A communications channel is provided, which includes a receive path having an iterative decoder and an ECC decoder. The iterative decoder has a soft channel detector with a soft output. The ECC decoder is coupled to decode bits produced from soft information received from the soft output and operates on the bits in a bit order that is the same as that on the soft output.

 
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