Compact Model Coalition
The Compact Model Coalition (formerly the Compact Model Council) is a working group in the Electronic Design Automation industry formed to choose, maintain and promote the use of standard semiconductor device models. Commercial and industrial analog simulators (such as SPICE) need to add device models as technology advances (see Moore's law) and earlier models become inaccurate. Before this group was formed, new transistor models were largely proprietary, which severely limited the choice of simulators that could be used. It was formed in August, 1996, for the purpose developing and standardizing the use and implementation of SPICE  models and the model interfaces. In May 2013, the Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) and TechAmerica announced the transfer of the Compact Model Council to Si2 and a renaming to Compact Model Coalition. New models are submitted to the Coalition, where their technical merits are discussed, and then potential standard models are voted on. Some of the models supported by the Compact Modeling Coalition include: To address the increasing need for Reliability (ageing) simulation the CMC nominated the OMI Interface as the new EDA vendor independent solution for ageing simulations. Technically the Interface is very close the TMI2 Interface developed by  TSMC. The standardization will allow Silicon Foundries to develop a common set of aging models that will work with all significant analog simulators.