The AICP (Ambient Intelligent Co-Processor) project aims are to develop and implement high performance hardware pattern matching algorithms for use in embedded ubiquitous systems. As part of this project we aim to implement the pattern-matching algorithms onto the PRESENCE-2 hardware platform. PRESENCE-2 is a PCI-based accelerator card for high performance applications, designed and built here in the Computer Science Department at York University. This paper introduces the capabilities of the PRESENCE-2 card, and explains the hardware/software design methods and the libraries and tools needed to develop scalable solutions on the card. The paper closes by detailing several pattern-matching libraries that have been ported to the PRESENCE-2 card.