Patent ID: 7427537

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device including a first MISFET and a second MISFET formed over a semiconductor substrate, comprising the steps of: (a) providing the semiconductor substrate including a first area and a second area; (b) forming a first gate electrode of the first MISFET in the first area and a second gate electrode of the second MISFET in the second area; (c) forming a first semiconductor region and a second semiconductor region of the first MISFET in the first area; (d) forming a third semiconductor region and a fourth semiconductor region of the second MISFET in the second area; (e) forming a first insulating film over the first gate electrode, the first and second semiconductor region, the second gate electrode, and the third and fourth semiconductor region; (f) removing the first insulating film over the third and fourth semiconductor region in the second area; (g) after the step (f), forming a metal film over the first insulating film in the first area and over the third and fourth semiconductor region in the second area; (h) performing a thermal treatment to form silicide films of the metal on the third and fourth semiconductor region and not on the first and second semiconductor region; (i) after the step (h), removing a part of the metal film which is not silicided in the step (h); (j) after the step (i), forming an interlayer insulating film over the first area and the second area; (k) polishing a surface of the interlayer insulating film; (l) etching the interlayer insulating film to form a first contact hole such that an etching rate of the interlayer insulating film is larger than an etching rate of the first insulating film in etching the interlayer insulating film; and (m) forming a first conductive film, in the first contact hole, electrically connected to the first semiconductor region. wherein, in the step (b), each of the first gate electrode and the second first gate electrode includes a metal film and a second insulating film formed over the metal film; wherein the first semiconductor region or the second semiconductor region serves as a source region or a drain region of the first MISFET.