Heat may be an issue, so this would need a circuit board with a mid-sized copper area to draw heat away from the IC.
For higher currents one can be used like the Si977DW to drive the actual MOSFET output transistors, Figure 1 toward the bottom of the linked datasheet shows how to do this.
It's been in production for a number of years now.
What do you mean it won't be available until next year?
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I honestly don't know what's going on with those. I haven't looked at authorized distributors stocks for those parts in awhile, but nobody has any except for Farnell in the UK, and they only have 30 or so - of ANY of those parts.
You're probably going to have to look at using discrete MOSFETs and gate driver ICs, which is going to consume more board space and take longer to assemble.
Are you looking for something mass production? Otherwise, unsure why "end of life" would matter for a one off hobby circuit, as those parts hang out on the cheaper hobby sites for quite some time.
Yes, I ink so. I might looking for the Mosfet or replay. Bill has helped me with relay from dual timer 556. I just looking for the H bridge IC, if it available, so that I don't need to build one.