Hello,
In the non-isolated buck configuration described in the demo board IC GND and system GND are the same.
The IC uses the FB pin to sense output voltage through a resistor divider, and the Source pin to measure current via a low-side sense resistor (R4), but only during the MOSFET’s OFF-time when the inductor current is near zero. CV mode begins at a switching frequency of 22.5 kHz and a Vsource of 100 mV, and as output power increases, both Vsource and switching frequency rise, up to 555 mV and 50.5 kHz respectively. Once the IC reaches its start-up voltage, the internal start-up current source is disabled



