Claims
- 1. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device having a memory cell array region and a peripheral circuit region, comprising the steps of:(a) forming gate electrodes, source regions and drain regions for MISFETs in a memory cell array region and said peripheral circuit region on the surface of a semiconductor substrate; (b) forming a first insulating film over said gate electrodes in said memory cell array region and said peripheral circuit region; (c) performing a polishing of the surface of said first insulating film; (d) forming a second insulating film over said first insulating film; (e) forming grooves in said second insulating film in said memory cell array region and said peripheral circuit region; and (f) forming conductive films in said grooves in said memory cell array region and said peripheral circuit region to form bit lines and first interconnections respectively, wherein one of said bit lines is connected to one of said source and drain regions of said MISFET in said memory cell array region.
- 2. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device according to claim 1, further comprising the step, between steps (c) and (d), of:(i) forming a fourth insulating film on said first insulating film, wherein said second insulating film has a larger etching rate than that of said fourth insulating film in said step (e) of forming the grooves in said second insulating film.
- 3. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device according to claim 2, wherein the fourth insulating film is a silicon nitride film and the second insulating film is a silicon oxide film.
- 4. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device according to claim 2, wherein a sum of thicknesses of the fourth and second insulating films over the memory cell array region is the same as the thickness of the bit lines, and a sum of thicknesses of the fourth and second insulating films over the peripheral circuit region is the same as the thickness of the first interconnections.
- 5. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device according to claim 1, further comprising the steps, after step (f), of:(g) forming a third insulating film on said second insulating film; and (h) forming capacitors over said bit lines in said memory cell array region, wherein said capacitors are connected to one of said source and drain regions of said MISFET.
- 6. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device according to claim 5, further comprising the steps, after step (h), of:(j) forming a fifth insulating film over said capacitors and said first interconnections; and (k) forming second interconnections over said fifth insulating film.
- 7. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device according to claim 6, wherein said second interconnections are electrically connected to said first interconnections in said peripheral circuit region.
- 8. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device according to claim 6, wherein said second interconnections are electrically connected to a portion of said capacitors in said memory cell array region.
- 9. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device according to claim 1, wherein portions of said first interconnections are connected to said source and drain regions of said MISFETs in said peripheral circuit region.
- 10. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device according to claim 1, wherein a thickness of the second insulating film over the memory cell array region is the same as the thickness of the bit lines, and a thickness of the second insulating film over the peripheral circuit region is the same as the thickness of the first interconnections.
- 11. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device according to claim 1, wherein the grooves over the memory cell array region have a pattern of the bit lines, and the grooves over the peripheral circuit region have a pattern of the first interconnections.
- 12. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device according to claim 1, wherein the conductive films, in step (f), are buried in said grooves respectively in said memory cell array region and said peripheral circuit region and respectively form the bit lines and the first interconnections.
- 13. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device according to claim 1, wherein the conductive films are buried in said grooves, in step (f), to form said bit lines and said first interconnections buried in said grooves.
Priority Claims (2)
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Parent Case Info
This application is a Divisional application of application Serial No. 09/642,586, filed Aug. 22, 2000 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,417,045, which is a Continuation application of application Ser. No. 09/332,894, filed Jun. 15, 1999 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,168,985, which is a Continuation of application Ser. No. 08/968,586, filed Nov. 13, 1997 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,037,207.
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