Hi,
I don´t understand the sketch.
What do the lines/arrows show? Power supply / or data?
The PIC is missing totally. Shouldn´t it be the central element?
What is this mystic "ethernet module"?
* something you buy/bought? give a link to it´s datasheet.
* you design it?
* is there a bus/backplane where you can connect/disconnet these modules?
Also you say the ethernet modules are powered independently..... but both are connected to the same PIC?
What is the communication interface beween PIC and ethernet module? (most important to answer)
What is your idea? In case one ethernet module is not powered .. it makes no sense to communicate with it.
But .. then I ask: why would one power the one module but not the other one... I don´t understand the idea. Ethernet wise they are galvanically isolated anyways.
Indeed I don´t understand why there are two ethernet modules at all.
For me ... if there is a s single PIC ... then you usually have a single ethernet module.
(You usually have two ethernet modules if there are two independent ethernet nets. Like one for intranet, one for internet)
Klaus