Receivables, net (Details Textual) - Customer	Dec. 31, 2016	Jan. 02, 2016
Receivables and Allowances for Doubtful Accounts (Textual) [Abstract]
Number of customers with receivables balance greater than ten percent of total balance	0	1
Percent of receivables attributable to single customer	10.00%	12.00%
Percentage of Cadence's total receivables, net attributable to the ten customers with largest balance	47.00%	45.00%
Number of customers with largest balance of receivables	10	10