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+# IOC Component Reference
+
+This document provides reference information about the record types,
+menus, link types and channel filters included with EPICS Base.
+
+## Introduction and IOC Concepts
+
+- [Introduction to EPICS](https://docs.epics-controls.org/en/latest/getting-started/EPICS_Intro.html)
+- [Process Database Concepts](https://docs.epics-controls.org/en/latest/process-database/EPICS_Process_Database_Concepts.html)
+
+## Record Type Definitions
+
+These sections describe common aspects of the record types:
+
+```{toctree}
+:titlesonly:
+
+dbCommonRecord
+dbCommonInput
+dbCommonOutput
+```
+
+These are the record types supplied with EPICS Base:
+
+```{toctree}
+:titlesonly:
+
+aaiRecord
+aaoRecord
+aiRecord
+aoRecord
+aSubRecord
+biRecord
+boRecord
+calcoutRecord
+calcRecord
+compressRecord
+dfanoutRecord
+eventRecord
+fanoutRecord
+histogramRecord
+int64inRecord
+int64outRecord
+longinRecord
+longoutRecord
+lsiRecord
+lsoRecord
+mbbiDirectRecord
+mbbiRecord
+mbboDirectRecord
+mbboRecord
+permissiveRecord
+printfRecord
+selRecord
+seqRecord
+stateRecord
+stringinRecord
+stringoutRecord
+subArrayRecord
+subRecord
+waveformRecord
+```
+
+## Menu Definitions
+
+Menu field choices are documented with the record type that defines them, or
+here for the global menus that are used by multiple record types:
+
+```{toctree}
+:titlesonly:
+
+menuAlarmSevr
+menuAlarmStat
+menuConvert
+menuFtype
+menuIvoa
+menuOmsl
+menuPini
+menuPost
+menuPriority
+menuScan
+menuSimm
+menuYesNo
+```
+
+## Other Components
+
+EPICS Base also comes with extensible sets of server Channel Filters and IOC
+Database Link types, which are documented here:
+
+```{toctree}
+:titlesonly:
+
+filters
+links
+```