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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1997
Toshio Komuro, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A semiconductor static random access memory device has a memory cell array assigned a central area of a major surface of a silicon substrate and a peripheral circuit assigned a peripheral area of the major surface, and the memory cell array and the peripheral circuit are covered with a multiple-layered inter-level insulating structure; and the memory cells are associated with various conductive lines extending on different inter-level insulating layers, and dummy strips are inserted on the different inter-level insulating layers so as to make the multiple-layered inter-level insulating structure constant in thickness, thereby preventing a gate electrode of a component bulk transistor of the peripheral circuit from over-etching during formation of contact holes.