When the substrate bias voltage Vbb lowers by the pumping operation of the
charge pump circuit, a drain-to-source resistance of the N-transistor
becomes high. When a first power supply voltage Vcc is set at high value,
a drain-to-source current of the N-transistor increases (I+.DELTA.I1),
however the drain-to-source current decreases (I+.DELTA.I1-.DELTA.I2) by
the increase of the drain-to-source current owing to the substrate bias
effect so that the increase of the potential of the node N34 caused by
the increase of the first power supply voltage VCC is restrained. As a
result, a reference level of the substrate bias voltage Vbb does not
largely lower than the reference level of the substrate bias voltage. Vbb
when the first power supply voltage VCC is in a standard level.