A mask manufacturing system and a mask data creating method reusing data
for processing information and environment in the past to reduce a
photomask developing period, and a manufacturing method of a
semiconductor device are disclosed. According to one aspect of the
present invention, it is provided a mask manufacturing system comprising
a storage device storing processing data for semiconductor integrated
circuits processed in the past, a plurality of operation processing
modules, a module selecting section selecting at least one operation
processing modules, an optical proximity effect correction section
executing optical proximity effect correction to a processing object data
and generating a correction data by utilizing past correction information
applied for a stored data equivalent to the processing object data, a
converting section converting the processing object data into mask data,
and a drawing system drawing a mask pattern based on the mask data.