Stock Repurchase Programs (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 29, 2012

Equity [Abstract]

Repurchase of common shares

Cadence's Board of Directors has authorized the following programs to repurchase shares of Cadence's common stock in the open market, which remained in effect on December 29, 2012:

			Remaining
Authorization Date	Amount		Authorization
	(In thousands)
February 2008	$	500,000	$	314,389
August 2008	500,000		500,000
Total remaining authorization			$	814,389

Share repurchased and total cost of repurchased shares

The shares repurchased under Cadence's stock repurchase programs and the total cost of repurchased shares during fiscal 2012, 2011 and 2010 were as follows:

	2012		2011		2010
	(In thousands)
Shares repurchased	—		—		6,493
Total cost of repurchased shares	$	—	$	—	$	39,997