def componentDoc(self, starttime=True):
        """The documentation for the components, as a dict

        :returns dict -- values are the generation samplerate, and a list of 
                         the individual component docs
        """
        samplerate = self.samplerate()
        doc_list = []
        for row, track in enumerate(self._segments):
            start_time = 0
            for col, component in enumerate(track):
                info = component.stateDict()
                info['stim_type'] = component.name
                if starttime:
                    info['start_s'] = start_time
                info['index'] = (row, col)
                start_time += info['duration']
                doc_list.append(info)
                
        return {'samplerate_da':samplerate, 'components' : doc_list}