The present invention relates to a semiconductor memory circuit capable of reducing the number of routes to decrease the area of a chip. In a construction of a synchronous semiconductor memory circuit with a LOC architecture in accordance with the present invention including a peripheral circuit block in which an address pad and an input/output pad are arranged at the left and right sides of a chip, respectively, an address counter is placed at the center of the address pad, a first address decoder is placed at the address pad, a second address decoder is placed at the input/output pad, a first address counter buffer for driving the first address decoder upon receipt of the output of the address counter is placed adjacent to the address counter between the address counter and the first address decoder, and a second address counter buffer for driving the second address decoder upon receipt of the output of the address counter is placed at the center of the chip.