In Intel® Arria® 10 devices the MSEL pins encode whether the device is operating in a Passive configuration mode (FPP/PS) or an Active mode (Active Serial (AS)). There is no separate MSEL setting that differentiates PS mode from FPP mode.
The Intel® Arria® 10 devices configuration control block will look for certain data patterns during the start of the passive configuration process. When the external host transfers the configuration data in different data widths such as in PS (DATA0) , FPPx8 (DATA[7..0]), FPPx16(DATA[15..0]) and FPPx32(DATA[31..0]), the configuration control block will decipher the mode by detecting a certain pattern being latched on these DATA pins. The patterns will be different in different passive modes based on the data width size.