Business Overview	12 Months Ended
Jan. 01, 2022
Accounting Policies [Abstract]
BUSINESS OVERVIEW	BUSINESS OVERVIEWCadence Design Systems, Inc. (“Cadence”) provides solutions that enable its customers to design complex and innovative products. Cadence’s solutions are designed to give its customers a competitive edge in their development of integrated circuits (“ICs”), systems-on-chip (“SoCs”) and increasingly sophisticated electronic devices and systems by optimizing performance, minimizing power consumption, shortening the time required for customers to bring their products to market, improving engineering productivity and reducing their design, development and manufacturing costs. Cadence’s product offerings include software, hardware, services and reusable IC design blocks, which are commonly referred to as intellectual property (“IP”). Cadence also provides maintenance for its software, hardware, and IP product offerings.

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