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Share-based Compensation Arrangement By Share-based Payment Award, Award Vesting Rights, Number Of Consecutive Trailing Four-Quarter Periods For Measurement

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement By Share-based Payment Award, Award Vesting Rights, Vesting Multiplier

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Represents the expense recognized during the period arising from equity-based compensation arrangements (for example, shares of stock, unit, stock options or other equity instruments) with employees, directors and certain consultants qualifying for treatment as employees.

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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Percentage of vesting of share-based compensation awards.

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Stock-Based Compensation (Narrative) (Details) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 29, 2018 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2017 USD ($)	Sep. 29, 2018 USD ($) Period	Sep. 30, 2017 USD ($)
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Stock-based compensation	$ 2,708	$ 2,514	$ 9,908	$ 9,286
CEO
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Stock-based compensation			$ 1,400
CEO \| Performance Shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Award vesting period			3 years
Award vesting rights, number of consecutive trailing four-quarter periods for measurement \| Period			2
Corporate Vice President Of Research And Development [Member] \| Performance Shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Award vesting period			3 years
Executives
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Stock-based compensation	$ 100	$ 100	$ 600	$ 400
Executives \| Performance Shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Award vesting period			2 years
Comparison period			2 years
Executives \| Minimum \| Performance Shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Award vesting rights, percentage			0.00%
Executives \| Maximum \| Performance Shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Award vesting rights, percentage			200.00%
TSR below 25th percentile \| Corporate Vice President Of Research And Development [Member] \| Performance Shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Award vesting rights, percentage			0.00%
TSR relative to PHLX Semiconductor Sector Index 50th percentile achievement \| CEO \| Performance Shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Award vesting rights, percentage			100.00%
TSR relative to PHLX Semiconductor Sector Index 50th percentile achievement \| Corporate Vice President Of Research And Development [Member] \| Performance Shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Award vesting rights, percentage			100.00%
TSR relative to PHLX Semiconductor Sector Index 75th percentile achievement \| CEO \| Performance Shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Award vesting multiplier			250.00%
TSR relative to PHLX Semiconductor Sector Index 75th percentile achievement \| Corporate Vice President Of Research And Development [Member] \| Performance Shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Award vesting multiplier			200.00%