Stock Repurchase Programs (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 28, 2013

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 28, 2013:

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