A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a plurality of functional circuits, a plurality of signal transmission lines disposed to interconnect among the functional circuits for transfer of a plurality of control signals which are to be supplied to respective functional circuits and are different in timing from one another, and a control circuit for generation of the control signals. The control circuit has a plurality of stages of control signal generator circuits that generate and issue the control signals respectively. The control signal generator circuits are specifically linked together so that when one generator circuit at a certain stage generates at its output a control signal to be transferred over a corresponding signal line, another circuit at the next stage is activated in response to receipt of this control signal.