US 7,530,049 B2
Mask manufacturing system, mask data creating method and manufacturing method of semiconductor device
Sachiko Kobayashi, Ichikawa (Japan); and Toshiya Kotani, Machida (Japan)
Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on May 25, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/440,086.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-152830 (JP), filed on May 25, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0124718 A1, May 31, 2007
Int. Cl. G06F 17/50 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 716—19  [716/20; 716/21] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mask manufacturing system comprising:
a storage device storing a plurality of stored data and correction information for semiconductor integrated circuits processed in the past, the stored data including layout data converted into a mask data, the correction information including a predictive accuracy of patterns on a wafer and an actual accuracy of patterns on a wafer after optical proximity effect correction related to the stored data;
a plurality of operation processing modules each executing logical operation and arithmetic operation;
a module selecting section selecting at least one of the plurality of operation processing modules as a selected module;
an optical proximity effect correction section, using the selected module, executing optical proximity effect correction on a processing object data for the layout data of a semiconductor integrated circuit by reusing correction information applied for optical proximity effect correction to one of the stored data selected from the plurality of stored data, and generating a corrected processing object data, the selected stored data having coverage equal to that of the processing object data;
a converting section converting the corrected processing object data into mask data by using the selected module; and
a drawing system reading the mask data and drawing a mask pattern corresponding to the semiconductor integrated circuit on a mask substrate.