A low-power, temperature-regulated bandgap voltage reference is demonstrated in a commercial CMOS process. Low-power operation is achieved by thermally isolating a small portion of the die using a single postprocess micromachining step requiring no extra masks or modifications to the CMOS process, The reference has a 53000 degrees C/W thermal resistance, a 2.5 ms thermal time constant, and uses 1.5 mW at 25 degrees C. Temperature regulation improves the temperature coefficient from 400 ppm/degrees C to 9 ppm/degrees C over 0-80 degrees C.