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The aggregate expense charged against earnings to allocate the cost of intangible assets (nonphysical assets not used in production) in a systematic and rational manner to the periods expected to benefit from such assets. As a noncash expense, this element is added back to net income when calculating cash provided by or used in operations using the indirect method.

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Interest rate used to find the present value of an amount to be paid or received in the future as an input to measure fair value. For example, but not limited to, weighted average cost of capital (WACC), cost of capital, cost of equity and cost of debt.

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Percentage of assumed long-term growth in revenues, used as an input to measure fair value.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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The amount of impairment loss recognized in the period resulting from the write-down of the carrying amount of a finite-lived intangible asset to fair value.

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Amount of increase in assets, excluding financial assets and goodwill, lacking physical substance with an indefinite life, from an acquisition.

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Goodwill and Purchased Intangible Assets - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 30, 2016	Dec. 25, 2015	Dec. 26, 2014
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Amortization of finite-lived intangibles	$ 5,758	$ 6,212	$ 4,884
UCT Trade name [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Value of UCT tradename	9,000
Marchi Thermal Systems Inc [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Amortization of finite-lived intangibles	2,400
Miconex [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Amortization of finite-lived intangibles		$ 500
Trade Name [Member] \| American Integration Technologies LLC [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Wrote off remaining book value of tradename intangible acquired	$ 500
Minimum [Member] \| Trade Name [Member] \| American Integration Technologies LLC [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Estimated economic lives for intangible assets	6 years
Minimum [Member] \| Trade Name [Member] \| Marchi Thermal Systems Inc [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Estimated economic lives for intangible assets	6 years
Minimum [Member] \| Customer Relationships [Member] \| American Integration Technologies LLC [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Estimated economic lives for intangible assets	6 years
Minimum [Member] \| Customer Relationships [Member] \| Marchi Thermal Systems Inc [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Estimated economic lives for intangible assets	7 years
Minimum [Member] \| Customer Relationships [Member] \| Miconex [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Estimated economic lives for intangible assets	7 years
Minimum [Member] \| Intellectual Properties/Know-How [Member] \| Marchi Thermal Systems Inc [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Estimated economic lives for intangible assets	7 years
Minimum [Member] \| Intellectual Properties/Know-How [Member] \| Miconex [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Estimated economic lives for intangible assets	7 years
Maximum [Member] \| Trade Name [Member] \| American Integration Technologies LLC [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Estimated economic lives for intangible assets	10 years
Maximum [Member] \| Trade Name [Member] \| Marchi Thermal Systems Inc [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Estimated economic lives for intangible assets	10 years
Maximum [Member] \| Customer Relationships [Member] \| American Integration Technologies LLC [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Estimated economic lives for intangible assets	10 years
Maximum [Member] \| Customer Relationships [Member] \| Marchi Thermal Systems Inc [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Estimated economic lives for intangible assets	12 years
Maximum [Member] \| Customer Relationships [Member] \| Miconex [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Estimated economic lives for intangible assets	12 years
Maximum [Member] \| Intellectual Properties/Know-How [Member] \| Marchi Thermal Systems Inc [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Estimated economic lives for intangible assets	12 years
Maximum [Member] \| Intellectual Properties/Know-How [Member] \| Miconex [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Estimated economic lives for intangible assets	12 years
American Integration Technologies Reporting Units [Member] \| Minimum [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Terminal growth rate	4.00%
Discount rate	12.00%
American Integration Technologies Reporting Units [Member] \| Maximum [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Terminal growth rate	4.80%
Discount rate	17.00%