The AD588 is the first member of a new generation of monolithic precision voltage references. Long-time readers of this Journal will remember the 2.5-volt AD580 bandgap reference, introduced in 1974 [8-2 (12), 9-1 (6-7), 9-2 (20-21)] and the versatile pin-programmable bandgap AD584, introduced in 1978 [12-2, (6-7)]. Read full article
