diff --git a/projects/hip/bin/hipcc b/projects/hip/bin/hipcc
index 777a1b3f9d..7df674f57b 100755
--- a/projects/hip/bin/hipcc
+++ b/projects/hip/bin/hipcc
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ if ($HIP_PLATFORM eq "hcc") {
     if ($target_gfx701 eq 0 and $target_gfx801 eq 0 and $target_gfx802 eq 0 and $target_gfx803 eq 0) 
     {
         $HIPLDFLAGS .= " --amdgpu-target=gfx701 --amdgpu-target=gfx801 --amdgpu-target=gfx802 --amdgpu-target=gfx803";
+        $ENV{HIP_HC_IR_GFX803}="$HIP_PATH/lib/hip_hc_gfx803.ll\n";
     }
 
     # Add trace marker library:
diff --git a/projects/hip/tests/src/deviceLib/hipTestHalf.cpp b/projects/hip/tests/src/deviceLib/hipTestHalf.cpp
index 7455037923..2284148bb5 100644
--- a/projects/hip/tests/src/deviceLib/hipTestHalf.cpp
+++ b/projects/hip/tests/src/deviceLib/hipTestHalf.cpp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
-Copyright (c) 2015-2016 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2015-2017 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved.
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
 in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
@@ -17,40 +17,16 @@ OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
 THE SOFTWARE.
 */
 
-#include <stdio.h>
+#include <iostream>
 #include <hip/hip_fp16.h>
 #include "hip/hip_runtime_api.h"
 
-#define DSIZE 4
-#define SCF 0.5f
-#define nTPB 256
-__global__ void half_scale_kernel(hipLaunchParm lp, float *din, float *dout, int dsize){
-
-  int idx = hipThreadIdx_x+ hipBlockDim_x*hipBlockIdx_x;
-  if (idx < dsize){
-    __half scf = __float2half(SCF);
-    __half kin = __float2half(din[idx]);
-    __half kout;
-
-    kout = __hmul(kin, scf);
-
-//    kout = cvt_float_to_half(cvt_half_to_float(kin)*cvt_half_to_float(scf));
-
-    dout[idx] = __half2float(kout);
-    }
+__global__ void halfMath(hipLaunchParm lp, half *A, half *B, half *C) {
+  int tx = hipThreadIdx_x;
+  __half a = A[tx];
+  
 }
 
 int main(){
 
-  float *hin, *hout, *din, *dout;
-  hin  = (float *)malloc(DSIZE*sizeof(float));
-  hout = (float *)malloc(DSIZE*sizeof(float));
-  for (int i = 0; i < DSIZE; i++) hin[i] = i;
-  hipMalloc(&din,  DSIZE*sizeof(float));
-  hipMalloc(&dout, DSIZE*sizeof(float));
-  hipMemcpy(din, hin, DSIZE*sizeof(float), hipMemcpyHostToDevice);
-  hipLaunchKernel(half_scale_kernel, dim3((DSIZE+nTPB-1)/nTPB),dim3(nTPB), 0, 0, din, dout, DSIZE);
-  hipMemcpy(hout, dout, DSIZE*sizeof(float), hipMemcpyDeviceToHost);
-  for (int i = 0; i < DSIZE; i++) printf("%f\n", hout[i]);
-  return 0;
 }