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Organization and Description of Business and Accounting Policies (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 28, 2012
Accounting Policies [Abstract] |
Schedule Of Propety Plant and Equipment [Table Text Block] | Depreciation is generally computed using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets:
Machinery and equipment |  |  | 5-10 years |
Furniture and equipment |  |  | 3-7 years |
Computer and peripherals |  |  | 2-5 years |
Leasehold improvements |  |  | (a) |
| (a) | Leasehold improvements are depreciated over the shorter of the useful life of the asset or the term of the associated leases.
Schedule of Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Table Text Block] | The Company presents comprehensive income (loss) in two separate but not consecutive Consolidated Financial Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss). Total comprehensive income (loss) includes, in addition to net income (loss), changes in equity that are excluded from the consolidated statements of operations and are recorded directly into a separate section of stockholders’ equity on the consolidated balance sheets.
In thousands |  | Foreign Currency |  |  | Defined Benefit Pension Plans, net of tax |  |  | Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) |
Balance, at January 1, 2010 |  | $ | 1,955 |  |  | $ | 1,299 |  |  | $ | 3,254 |
Current period other comprehensive income (loss) |  |  | (1,154 | ) |  |  | — |  |  |  | (1,154 | )
Balance, at December 31, 2010 |  |  | 801 |  |  |  | 1,299 |  |  |  | 2,100 |
Current period other comprehensive income (loss) |  |  | (247 | ) |  |  | 552 |  |  |  | 305 |
Balance, at December 30, 2011 |  |  | 554 |  |  |  | 1,851 |  |  |  | 2,405 |
Current period other comprehensive income (loss) |  |  | (722 | ) |  |  | (103 | ) |  |  | (825 | )
Balance, at December 28, 2012 |  | $ | (168 | ) |  | $ | 1,748 |  |  | $ | 1,580

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of components of comprehensive income (loss) including, but not limited to: (a) foreign currency translation adjustments; (b) gains (losses) on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (c) gains (losses) on intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, when the entities to the transaction are consolidated, combined, or accounted for by the equity method in the reporting enterprise's financial statements; (d) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (e) unrealized holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities and that resulting from transfers of debt securities from the held-to-maturity category to the available-for-sale category; (f) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (g) the net gain (loss) and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Section 45 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=20435746&loc=d3e526-108580 + Details
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