There is to be provided a liquid crystal drive controller with a built-in
power supply circuit wherein latch-up is made difficult to arise even if
one amplitude level of the segment line drive voltage is set to the
ground potential and the levels of other liquid crystal drive voltages
are determined accordingly. A semiconductor integrated circuit with a
built-in power supply circuit, wherein a negative voltage generated in a
power supply circuit is applied to a substrate or a well region as a bias
voltage, is provided with a switch for temporarily applying the ground
potential to the substrate or well region to be biased with the negative
voltage at the time of starting up the power supply circuit.