A semiconductor device includes a resistor element covered by a silicon
oxide film. In the semiconductor device, with respective gate electrodes
of MIS transistors and impurity doped layers, i.e., non-silicide regions
exposed, thermal treatment for activating an impurity and silicidization
are performed. Thus, auto-doping of an impurity is suppressed, so that
variations in a resistance value of a resistor are suppressed. Also, the
gate electrodes of the MIS transistors and the like are exposed when
thermal treatment for activating an impurity, and therefore breakdown of
respective gate insulation films of the MIS transistors hardly occurs.