The gate tunnel leakage current is increased in the up-to-date process, so
that it is necessary to reduce the gate tunnel leakage current in the LSI
which is driven by a battery for use in a cellular phone and which needs
to be in a standby mode at a low leakage current. In a semiconductor
integrated circuit device, the ground source electrode lines of logic and
memory circuits are kept at a ground potential in an active mode, and are
kept at a voltage higher than the ground potential in an unselected
standby mode. The gate tunnel leakage current can be reduced without
destroying data.