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Serial Ports

nXPico W has the same serial ports as nXPico, on the same pins — WiFi lives on the CYW43 chip and takes no UART away.

PortPeripheralPinsAvailable to the application
COM1USB-CDCmicro-USBNo — CODESYS gateway
COM2UART0GP12 TX / GP13 RX, direction on GP18Yes
COM3UART1GP4 TX / GP5 RXYes

The full reference — how to open a port, read and write without blocking the PLC cycle, and what happens to the boot log when you open COM2 — is on the nXPico Serial Ports page. It applies here unchanged.