FPGA Pedal design

[Christoper]

I'm looking at designing a pedal from scratch that let's me pass in an HDL model of a circuit. A FPGA seems like the proper tool, but the Daisy Seed DSP seems like it has better support, even though it's not strictly the "correct" tool for the job. The Daisy Pod for example would completely bypass the soldering iron for the proof of concept phase.

The Daisy looks to have quite a bit of power behind it, but is it enough to model a circuit on it in real time?

What would be a better piece of equipment to look into for this task?

[Christoper]

I'm now looking at the Basys 3 FPGA trainer board, but is there something that would allow me to use physical pots? The PMOD has a "digital pot" that looks like I *might be able to use a physical pot.

I'm looking at the AMP3 for an audio codec