Receivables and Allowances for Doubtful Accounts (Details Textual) - Customer	Jan. 02, 2016	Jan. 03, 2015
Receivables and Allowances for Doubtful Accounts (Textual) [Abstract]
Number of customers with receivables balance greater than ten percent of total balance	1	0
Percent of receivables attributable to single customer	12.00%	10.00%
Percentage of Cadence's total receivables, net attributable to the ten customers with largest balance	45.00%	43.00%
Number of customers with largest balance of receivables	10	10