1. A machine-implemented method for implementing a compact manufacturing model during various stages of an electronic circuit design, the method comprising: identifying the electronic circuit design; identifying a manufacturing process which is used to fabricate a portion of the electronic circuit design; identifying physics based data for the manufacturing process; determining or identifying a compact manufacturing model for the manufacturing process based at least in part upon the physics based data, wherein the compact manufacturing model correlates a first characteristic of the electronic circuit on a first domain to a second characteristic of the electronic circuit on a second domain; and displaying a result of the act of determining or identifying the compact manufacturing model or storing the result in a computer readable medium.