  The Time Projection Chamber of the ALICE experiment at the CERN Large Hadron
Collider features highly integrated on-detector read-out electronics. It is
following the general trend of high energy physics experiments by placing the
front-end electronics as close to the detector as possible -- only some 10 cm
away from its active volume. Being located close to the beams and the
interaction region, the electronics is subject to a moderate radiation load,
which allowed us to use commercial off-the-shelf components. However, they
needed to be selected and qualified carefully for radiation hardness and means
had to be taken to protect their functionality against soft errors, i.e. single
event upsets.
  Here we report on the first measurements of LHC induced radiation effects on
ALICE front-end electronics and on how they attest to expectations.
