Deep packet inspection which perform pattern matching to search for malicious patterns in the packet is most computationally intensive task. Hardware-based pattern matching is required for real-time packet inspection in high-speed network. In this paper, we have designed and implemented network intrusion detection hardware as a Microblaze-based SoC using Virtex-6 FPGA, which capture the network input packet, perform hardware-based pattern matching for patterns in the Snort rule, and provide the matching result to the software. We verify the operation of the implemented system using traffic generator and real network traffic. The implemented hardware can be used in network intrusion detection system operated in wire-speed.